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- Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
- No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
- When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
- And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are…
- And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives…
- For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not…
- Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others…
- ...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth…
- The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time…
- Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
- What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character…
- The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of…
- Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their…
- You should not honor men more than truth.
- And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent…
- Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold…
- And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
- Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected…
- Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
- More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
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