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People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

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The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

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Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

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I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

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Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

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We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

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Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

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