Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.
When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
A work well begun is half-ended.
The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.
Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.
Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.
"Arguments, like men, are often pretenders."
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