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The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
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Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
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If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
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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.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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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.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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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.
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
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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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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
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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.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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