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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

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

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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

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Do not expect justice where might is right.

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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

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When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

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God is truth and light his shadow.

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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

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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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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

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Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

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