You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
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The greatest penalty of evildoing – namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness…This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
You cannot conceive the many without the one.