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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

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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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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

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Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

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I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

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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 science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

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

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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

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True friendship can exist only between equals.

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Science is nothing but perception.

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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

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For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

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Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

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