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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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The excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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The car just seemed to be different in qualifying this afternoon to how it was in free practice
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain.
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites
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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
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No human thing is of serious importance
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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