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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

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Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

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

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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

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

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

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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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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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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

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To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

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