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" Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. "

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" 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. "

" Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. "

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

" We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. "

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

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

Measure Of A Man

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

" 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. "

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

" Man - a being in search of meaning. "

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

" States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. "

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

" As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. "

" This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. "

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

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

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

" Knowledge is true opinion. "

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

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

" To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. "

" Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. "

" 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. "

" It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. "

" Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. "

" Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. "