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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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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.
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The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
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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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YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERS
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Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
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Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
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The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
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Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?
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Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.
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Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
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I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The more I learn, the less I realize I know.
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