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Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear w...more

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But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich, to whom they owe nothing and who can do them no ...more

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It is even so in a commonwealth and in the councils of princes; if ill opinions cannot be quite rooted out, and you cannot cure some received vice acc...more

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Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some...more