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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, ...  
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman...  
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with...  
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cann...  
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.   Love
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.  
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.  
Courage is a kind of salvation.  
Courage is knowing what not to fear.  
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.  
Democracy passes into despotism.  
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and dis...  
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravate...  
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposit...  
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperil...  
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while ba...  
He was a wise man who invented beer.  
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of ...  
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of ag...  
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.  
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our ...  
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the comba...  
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.  
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my invent...  
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor...  
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician,...  
It is right to give every man his due.  
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evi...  
Knowledge is true opinion.  
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mi...  
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdo...  
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of r...  
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education t...  
Love is a serious mental disease.  
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of ...  
Man - a being in search of meaning.  
Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and...  
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind...  
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of ...  
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?  
Necessity... the mother of invention.  
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.  
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man....  
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our coun...  
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.  
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have ...  
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that y...   Politics
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.  
Philosophy is the highest music  
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.   Poetry
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.  
Science is nothing but perception.  
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.  
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them ...  
The beginning is the most important part of the work.  
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be be...  
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite d...  
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered...  
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.  
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled...  
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little c...  
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon hims...  
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery...  
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous...  
The wisest have the most authority.  
Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyon...  
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and...  
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can ...  
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.  
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself,...  
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, ...  
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.  
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases...  
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.  
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he fir...  
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.  
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being go...   Politics
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educate...  
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.  
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real trag...  
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to...  
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.  
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.  
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.  
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.  
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty,...  
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust...  
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.  
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they ...  
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they ...  
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year...