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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some...more

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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might ha...more

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Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be acc...more

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompan...more

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human b...more

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Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads ...more

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[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think tha...more