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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
The good is the beautiful.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Philosophy begins in wonder.
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