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There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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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.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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.
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
The dearth of faith or religion is the death of existence. Because our existence must revolve around faith.
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