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• A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
• To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or…
• I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we…
• And not only did men pass into animals, but I must also mention that there were animals tame and wild who changed…
• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
• The measure of a man is what he does with power.
• There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

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