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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.
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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
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I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.
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Geometry existed before creation.
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You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.
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