Man.. Is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death
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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness.. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.
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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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There is no such thing as a lover's oath.
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