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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Life must be lived as play.

Life must be lived as play.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of...

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of...

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the...

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the...

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that...

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that...

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a...

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a...

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It...

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Language is fossil poetry

Language is fossil poetry

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even...

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even...