Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned...

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned...

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction,...

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction,...

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind,...

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind,...

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the...

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the...

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him...

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him...

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a...

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a...

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first...

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first...

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full...

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full...

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the...

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the...

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat...

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat...