The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
From Plato
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Philosophy begins in wonder.
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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