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4.1 · 21 votes · 112 reads
3.5 · 46 votes · 119 reads
3.4 · 56 votes · 191 reads
Virtues
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.4.8 · 28 votes · 119 reads
Government and Politics
Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.3.2 · 42 votes · 147 reads
Government and Politics
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.4.8 · 24 votes · 67 reads
Feelings
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.4.3 · 11 votes · 20 reads
Society
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.4.0 · 6 votes · 9 reads
Society
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.4.8 · 42 votes · 169 reads
Science and Technology
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, a4.6 · 56 votes · 163 reads
Science and Technology
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.3.7 · 25 votes · 41 reads
Art and Culture
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.4.2 · 30 votes · 183 reads
Society
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.3.0 · 19 votes · 7 reads
Feelings
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.3.0 · 19 votes · 154 reads
Art and Culture
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.4.6 · 41 votes · 185 reads
Art and Culture
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.4.3 · 51 votes · 14 reads
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