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A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
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To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
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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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wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
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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 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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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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