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/ page 1039 of 1205 /The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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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 unequals alike.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Democracy passes into despotism.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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