"Arguments derived from probabilities are idle."
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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."
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"To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed."
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"All men, well interrogated, answer well."
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"He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen."
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"The beginning is half of the whole."
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"I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life."
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"Beauty is a natural superiority."
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"To do wrong is the greatest of evils."
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"The prisoner grows to love his chains."
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"The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know."
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"Love: a grave mental disease."
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"Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation."
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"The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth."
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"Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want."
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"You must base the Wisdom on Love."
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"Justice is having and doing what is one's own."
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"I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools."
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"No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul"
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"For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes."
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