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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

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So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

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Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

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The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

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

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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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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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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

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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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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

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Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

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

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We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

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