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“No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.”

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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