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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
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He was a wise man who invented beer.
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
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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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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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