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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.
The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.
Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful
Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.
The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.
Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?