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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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
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
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Behaviour Character Desire Emotion Flow Human Knowledge
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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Freedom Knowledge Ourself Seek
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.
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Afraid Children Darkness Fear Forgiveness Light Tragedy
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Courage Fear One Liner
No human thing is of serious importance.
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Human Importance One Liner Serious
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
Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Knowledge Learning Teaching
Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Education Food Knowledge One Liner Soul
Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
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Creation Duality Face Human Mask
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love One Liner Pursuit
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
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Good Harm Help Man Selfish
I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Attitude Confuse FAction Insult Thinking Try
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Children Education Effective Kind Play

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