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- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
- Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
- That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in…
- The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.
- When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading: Henny Youngman. He was a wise man who invented beer
- When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
- Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in…
- A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- 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…
- What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world…
- Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to…
- The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did…
- When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always…
- Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much…
- When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring…
- The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus they found, and that with ease, The soul of Aristophanes
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- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold