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Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

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A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

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The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

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The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

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It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

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Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

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The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

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Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

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