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(16 votes)   The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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(15 votes)   He who is of a 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.

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(10 votes)   Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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(10 votes)   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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(6 votes)   The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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(316 votes)   Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

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BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(276 votes)   To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

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(262 votes)   There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.

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(261 votes)   Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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(220 votes)   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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(180 votes)   Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.

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BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(149 votes)   Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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(148 votes)   Everything in Moderation

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(139 votes)   He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

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(134 votes)   Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

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