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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

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Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

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Do thine own work, and know thyself.

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

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Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

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

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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

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The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

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The prisoner grows to love his chains.

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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

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The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

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... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

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

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Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

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The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

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