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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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It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

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The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.

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

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Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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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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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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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

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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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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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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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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

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