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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

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There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

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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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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

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Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

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Adultery is the injury of nature.

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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

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God is a geometrician.

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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

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Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

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I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.

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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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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

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The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

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Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

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