Action Quotes

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Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is grea...more

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Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quic...more

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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Science is nothing but perception.

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Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.

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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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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

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For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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Light is the shadow of god

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Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end,came out again at the beginning, having still to see as much as ever.

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A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason h...more

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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.

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

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The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

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Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

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

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Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.

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You should not honor men more than truth.

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.