"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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"Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many."

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"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment."

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"Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike."

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"These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not."

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"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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"Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?"

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"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."

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"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

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"Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind."

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"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."

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"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."

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"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

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"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."

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"Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants."

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"In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes."

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"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."

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"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."

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"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."

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"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."

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"Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty."

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"Man is a two-legged animal without feathers."

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"Man is a being in search of meaning."

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"Even the gods love jokes."

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"I have good hope that there is something after death."

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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

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"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."

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"All learning has an emotional base."

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"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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"He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him."

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"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

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"Love is a serious mental disease."

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"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

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"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."

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"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

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"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."

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"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."

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"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."

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"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."

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