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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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No man should be angry with what is true.

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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

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As the government is, such will be the man.

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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

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For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

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