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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

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Man is a biped without feathers.

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Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

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The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

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He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

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Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

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He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

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My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

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