A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Democracy passes into despotism.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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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 learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
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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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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
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He was a wise man who invented beer.
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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 not a good servant will not be a good master.
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He who is of a 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 steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
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The excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
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The good is the beautiful.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
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The wisest have the most authority.
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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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 stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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Your silence gives consent.
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