Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Subject:
Honesty   
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Friends have all things in common.
Subject:
Friendship   
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Subject:
Lies   
Work: Dialogues, Phaedo
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Deception   
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Subject:
Failure   
Government   
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Subject:
Kindness   
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Philosophy is the highest music.
Subject:
Music   
Philosophical   
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Subject:
Employment   
Worries   
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The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Dictatorship   
Work: The Republic
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Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
Subject:
Knowledge   
Moderation   
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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
Subject:
Politicians   
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Subject:
Faith   
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Subject:
Age   
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Subject:
Women   
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Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Subject:
Progress   
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Subject:
Music   
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Subject:
Wisdom   
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Knowledge is true opinion.
Subject:
Knowledge   
Opinions   
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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Subject:
Taxes   
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