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" I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. "

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" The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. "

" Necessity... the mother of invention. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. "

" To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. "

" The beginning is the most important part of the work. "

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" Science is nothing but perception. "

" Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. "

" Man - a being in search of meaning. "

" 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. "

" No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. "

" We are twice armed if we fight with faith. "

" When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. "

" The good is the beautiful. "

" All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. "

" No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. "

" If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. "

" It is right to give every man his due. "

" Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. "

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

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" There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. "

" There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. "

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

" Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. "

" The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. "

" He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. "