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

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" 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. "

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

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

" Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. "

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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. "

" Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. "

" 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. "

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

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

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