As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
From Plato
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Democracy passes into despotism.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Science is nothing but perception.
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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