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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Alone Believe Culture Inspirational Shadow Understand
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Greatness Knowledge Poetry Understand Wise
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
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Die Dirty Grow Help Nourish People Person
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Activity Condition Destroy Goodness Human Lack
True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Equality Friendship One Liner True
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Affair Difference Evil Goodness Men Pay Philosophy Price Public Rule
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Beautiful Education Love Object Teaching
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Compulsion Force Knowledge Mind
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
A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Investigation Life Live One Liner Worth
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
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Deceive Life One Liner Relationship
But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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One Liner Truth Victory
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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History Poetry Truth Writing
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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Change Danger Fundamental Law Music State

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