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/ page 1034 of 1205 /For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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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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It is right to give every man his due.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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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.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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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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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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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?
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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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