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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

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No human thing is of serious importance.

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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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I like people who like Plato.

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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

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A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

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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 study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

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