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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

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What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

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Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.

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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

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Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.

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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.

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All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

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Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

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Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

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A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

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It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

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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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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

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