"The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable."
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"The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets."
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"The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage."
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"And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors."
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"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly."
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"As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves."
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"I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom."
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"Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough."
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"For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them."
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"So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well."
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"If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one."
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"A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants"
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"In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell."
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"for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him."
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"Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life."
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"We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best."
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"May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?"
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"Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body."
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"In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort."
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"The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all"
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