"If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent."
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"The soul never thinks without a picture."
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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
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"It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions."
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"What we expect, that we find."
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"No one loves the man whom he fears."
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"All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world"
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"The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart."
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"Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden."
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"Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance"
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"Wit is well-bred insolence."
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"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
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"Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities."
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"Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form."
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"The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful."
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"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
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"To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy."
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"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
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"He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader."
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