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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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He who is of 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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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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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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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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Knowledge is true opinion.

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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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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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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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