"Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness."
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"Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites."
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"The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use."
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"If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul."
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"There is truth in wine and children"
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"When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness."
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"He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed."
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"A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot."
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"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."
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"Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been."
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"What is honored in a country will be cultivated there."
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"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."
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"Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."
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"No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again."
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"Adultery is the injury of nature."
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"We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell."
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"And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent."
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"Knowledge is true opinion."
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"An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation."
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"Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night."
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