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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

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Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

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'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

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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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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

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He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

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What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

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