"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
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"A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something."
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"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."
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"Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own."
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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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"Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind."
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"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
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"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
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"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
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"The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants."
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"Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge."
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"Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly"."
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"Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle."
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"The first and the best victory is to conquer self."
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"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
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"When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things."
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"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses."
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"The right question is usually more important than the right answer."
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"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."
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"The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark."
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