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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.

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Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

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Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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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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Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

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Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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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 most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

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Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

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Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

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Through obedience learn to command.

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

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