The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes   
Virtue   
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Stupidity   
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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Science   
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Subject:
Life   
Wealth   
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Subject:
Character   
Life   
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
Science   
Work: The Republic
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Subject:
Evil   
Good   
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The wisest have the most authority.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Power   
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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
Subject:
Beauty   
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Deception   
Work: The Republic
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Subject:
Success   
Work   
Work: The Republic
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
Subject:
Life   
Health   
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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.
Subject:
Ignorance   
Philosophical   
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Subject:
Action   
Philosophical   
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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.
Subject:
Music   
Government   
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
Subject:
Equality   
Democracy   
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Life   
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Love is a serious mental disease.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Subject:
Honesty   
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