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" He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. "

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" How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? "

" Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. "

" We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. "

" One man cannot practice many arts with success. "

" Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. "

" When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. "

" Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. "

" To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. "

" Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. "

" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "

" The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. "

" The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless. "

" Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. "

" Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. "

" To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. "

" Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. "

" Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. "

" The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. "

" The measure of a man is what he does with power. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Love is a serious mental disease. "

" Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. "

" Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. "

" Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do. "

" A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. "

" The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. "

" Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety. "

" 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. "

" A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. "