The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
From Plato
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
I would fain grow old learning many things.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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