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" Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. "
Plato
Arts
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" There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. "
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" No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. "
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" The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. "
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" Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. "
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" Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety. "
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" Death is not the worst that can happen to men. "
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" Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. "
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" The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. "
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" Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? "
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" Love is a serious mental disease. "
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" To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent. "
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" Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. "
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" Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. "
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" When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. "
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Man
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" All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. "
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" A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. "
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" Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. "
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" Philosophy is the highest music. "
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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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" Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. "
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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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