"At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else."
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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men"
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"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization."
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"We must act out passion before we can feel it."
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"The only thing I know is that I know nothing"
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"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."
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"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
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"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."
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"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."
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"Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self."
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"Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different."
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"In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power."
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"A man's character is his fate."
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"The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being."
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"God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction."
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"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."
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"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
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"Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head."
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