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If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
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By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.
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For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.
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Men of Athens, I honor and love you but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.
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The universe really is motion & nothing else.
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Knowledge is our ultimate good.
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To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
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It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
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The end of life is to be like unto God and the soul following God, will be like unto Him He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.
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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
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Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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