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The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

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

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The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

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When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

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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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Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

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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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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

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Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.

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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

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My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

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

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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

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Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

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