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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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

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

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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

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...the Gods too love a joke.

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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

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Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

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More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

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If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

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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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... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

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