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Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

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Even the gods love jokes.

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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

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From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

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