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"Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"

"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment."

"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."

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

"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."

"Love is a serious mental disease."

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

"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."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."

"The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."

"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."

"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

"No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory."

"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."

"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."

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