Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
From Plato
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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