The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
PLATOThere 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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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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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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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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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.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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