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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

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Philosophy is the highest music.

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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

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They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

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Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

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There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

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And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

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