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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Plato
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Plato
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Plato
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
Plato
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Plato
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Voltaire
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Voltaire
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire
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