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““Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something””

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The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…

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Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

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The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.

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The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

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Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…

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The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…

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All men by nature desire to know.

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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

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Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of…

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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

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The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

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