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God is a geometrician.

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Plato
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
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Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
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Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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The god is the beautiful.
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Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
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There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
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