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It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

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Pleasure is the bait of sin

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

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Adultery is the injury of nature.

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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

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Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

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You can't do good if you don't feel good.

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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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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

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What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

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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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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

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It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

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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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