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" No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. "

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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. "

" He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. "

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" The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. "

" Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. "

" All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. "

" The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. "

" Knowledge is true opinion. "

" I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. "

" Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. "

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

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

" Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. "

" Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. "

" For good nurture and education implant good constitutions. "

" Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. "

" There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. "

" The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. "

" Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. "

" When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. "

" The greatest wealth is to live content with little. "

" 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. "