Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away,...

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away,...

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first...

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first...

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

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...

Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.

Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest...

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest...

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Even the gods love jokes

Even the gods love jokes

The wisest have the most authority.

The wisest have the most authority.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Knowledge is true opinion.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery...

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery...

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...

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what...

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what...

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...