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The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
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No one ever dies an atheist.
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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
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All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
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Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.
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Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
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The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
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Every man is a poet when he is in love.
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
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The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.
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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
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You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.
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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
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Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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The beginning is half of the whole.
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Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.