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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

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