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Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

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Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

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...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

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The wisest have the most authority.

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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

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Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

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The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.

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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

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As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

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...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.

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

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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

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And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.

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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

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No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

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