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| Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. |
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| Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power |
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| For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. |
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| 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 money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches. |
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| For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation |
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| 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 to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them |
| Birth; Honor; Life; Love; Principles; Wealth |
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| For that is, and ever will be, the best of sayings: that the useful is the noble and the hurtful is the base |
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| For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperilling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. |
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| Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. |
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| Good people do not need laws to act responsibly, while bad people need laws to break them. |
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| Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. |
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| Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure. |
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| He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it |
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| He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. |
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He who not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul comes to the door and thinks
he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted. |
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| Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. |
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| 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 it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce." |
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| Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. |
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