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Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.
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The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
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If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.
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You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
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To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
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If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death
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The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
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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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