Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.


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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Necessity... the mother of invention.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like Go...
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what...
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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely ...
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ...
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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The wisest have the most authority
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
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Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics
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The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
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Even the gods love jokes
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Abstinence is the surety of temperance
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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...
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under co...
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since sty...
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, h...
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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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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but ...
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort o...
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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