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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

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Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

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Ignorance: the root of all evil.

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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

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Let brother help brother.

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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

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We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.

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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

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The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

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Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

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