Quotes 21 till 40 of 117.
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
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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 best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.''
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I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
Phaedrus -
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
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