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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

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Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

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Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

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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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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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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

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

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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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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

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By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

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A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

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I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

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