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~ Arguments, like men are often pretenders ~

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~ Arguments derived from probabilities are idle ~

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~ Arguments derived from probabilities are idle ~

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~ 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 ~

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~ There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands ~

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~ Philosophy is the highest music ~

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~ Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them ~

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~ Abstinence is the surety of temperance. ~

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~ Justice is having and doing what is one's own. ~

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~ What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose ~

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~ To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous. ~

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

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

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~ The first and the best victory is to conquer self. ~

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~ Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not ~

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