"Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories."
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"The medicine increases the disease."
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"Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers."
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"Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person."
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"O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!"
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"Their rage supplies them with weapons."
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"Who can blind lover's eyes?"
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"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."
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"Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety."
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"From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods."
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"We can't all do everything."
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"Time is flying never to return."
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"I shudder when relating it."
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"Fury itself supplies arms."
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"Fate will find a way."
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"I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore."
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"The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels."
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"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it."
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"Success consecrates the most offensive crimes."
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"Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind."
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