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Wealth and poverty the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
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Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
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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.
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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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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