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"Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
"No one is more hated than he who speaks truth."
"Love is a serious mental disease."
"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
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"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue."
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
"You should not honor men more than truth."
"Love is a grave mental disease."
"Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
"Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
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"Thinking – the talking of the soul with itself."
"When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself."
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
"All learning has an emotional base."
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself."
"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
"Justice means minding your own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."
"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything."
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."
"Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
"The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture."
"There are two things a person should never be angry at: What they can help, and what they cannot."
"There are two distinct classes of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who do not."
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
"Knowledge is the food of the soul."
"There are two things a person should never be angry at; what they can help, and what they cannot."
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily."
"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."
"There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."
"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."
"The greatest mistake doctors make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and body are one and should not be treated separately!"
"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
"Apply yourself both now and in the rest of your life. Do not faint, do not weary, continue your progress. Do not remain in ignorance, but study what needs to be studied."
"Apply yourself to the study of wisdom. And from it all, single out the things that lead to joy."
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
"There is truth in wine."
"The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise."
"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
"Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
"There are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that originate in sensation and those that do not."
"Do not train children to learning by force and harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
"There is truth in wine"
"Apply yourself to acquiring the understanding of the principles of things."
"There are two distinct sorts of ideas, those which are inherent in the soul and those which are adventitious."
"When there is an agreement between that which is taught and what is believed, then, and only then, does learning occur."
"Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history."
"The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss."
"There is no harm in repeating a good thing."
"The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind; yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!"
"To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat."
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