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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.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wise...
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Let us describe the education of our men.... What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the exper...
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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around the law.
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
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The people always have 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.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.
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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Politics
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
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