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

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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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The race of the guardians must be kept pure.

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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

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Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

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Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

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A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.

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The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

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