Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
From Plato
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Necessity... the mother of invention.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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