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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Affair Evil Men Politics Price Public Rule
Love is a serious mental disease.
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Break Up Depression Disease Love Mental One Liner Serious
Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Knowledge Learning Teaching
If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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Affection Exclusion Feeling Love Man
There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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Desire Law Moderate Terrible Wild
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Excess Individual Liberty Slavery State
Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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Door God Life Man Patience Prison Wait
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Action Bad Finding Goodness Law People Responsiblity
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love One Liner Pursuit
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Fools Intelligence Men Philosophy Speak
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Acquire Body Compulsion Education Exercise Knowledge Mind Obtain
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Courage Fear One Liner
Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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Death Die Immortal Philosophy Soul
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Aim Evil Knowledge One Liner Virtue
He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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Ashamed Honour Involvement Love Lover
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Gain Honor Love Lover Men Wisdom

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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