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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage is a kind of salvation.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man - a being in search of meaning.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
- Low
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge is true opinion.
- Despotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy passes into despotism.
- Educated
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- Nov 07, 2020
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is right to give every man his due.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
- Mightier
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- Nov 07, 2020
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is a serious mental disease.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
- Known
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wisest have the most authority.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy is the highest music.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Necessity... the mother of invention.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
- Each Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
- Lived
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life must be lived as play.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
- Injustice
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
- Oath
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Perception
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- Nov 07, 2020