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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

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To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

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

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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

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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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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

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Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

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No one ever dies an atheist.

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The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

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I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

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Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

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When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

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Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

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