"The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics."
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"Fear of women love more than hate the man."
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"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government."
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"In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence."
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"A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house"
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"Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb."
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"The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces."
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"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return."
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"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
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"If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division."
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"Through your rags I see your vanity."
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"Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools."
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"A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind."
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"It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living."
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"Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds."
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"Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible."
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"I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."
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"I call that man idle who might be better employed."
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"Wisdom is knowing when you don't know"
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"Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires."
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