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" Philosophy begins in wonder. "

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

" The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. "

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

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

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" Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. "

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" Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. "

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" There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. "

" 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. "

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

" There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. "

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