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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

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He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

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I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.

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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

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I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

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Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

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

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

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Man was not made for himself alone

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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

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