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- The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which…
- Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
- There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
- They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
- For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their…
- 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.
- Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings…
- If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the…
- Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to…
- Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the…
- 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 when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of…
- Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because…
- Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them
- Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all…
- Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.
- For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire…
- For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons…
- Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.....
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