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I have good hope that there is something after death.
Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.
Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.
Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
In an honest man there is always something of a child.
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.
We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.
The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.
Not by force shall the children learn, but through play
A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.
Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.
So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.
...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul
Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.
Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.
Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.