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"There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive."
"At the touch of love, everyone is a poet."
"The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live."
"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
"It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary."
"Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune."
"A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things."
"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."
"Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy."
"Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large."
"Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life."
"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue."
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."
"There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink."
"Wisest is he who knows what he does not know."
"You should not honor men more than truth."
"A dog has the soul of a philosopher."
"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."
"More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else."