Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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Your silence gives consent.
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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The wisest have the most authority.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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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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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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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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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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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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There are three classes of men.Lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
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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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Life must be lived as play.
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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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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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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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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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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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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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
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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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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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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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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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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
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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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