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> Mankind will not get rid of its evils until either the class of those who philosophize in truth and rectitude reach political power or those most powerful in cities, under some divine dispensation, really get to philosophizing.

> Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it; Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

> Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

> Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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

> The beginning is the most important part of the work.

> The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

> Man is a tame or civilized animal; nevertheless, 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.

> You are so young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as judge of the highest matters.

> He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

> There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

> Never discourage anyone>. who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

> You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

> People have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness>. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

> Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

> The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

> Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

> One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

> He was a wise man who invented God.

> Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

> Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

> Philosophy is the highest music.

> Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

> Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

> 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.

> Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

> Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

> For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

> Not one of them, who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no Gods, ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

> When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

> They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

>  Life must be lived as play.

> At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

> Necessity is the mother of invention.

> Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.