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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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A well begun is half ended.

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

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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Truth is its own reward.

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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

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