When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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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

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...

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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.

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.

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...

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people...

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people...

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till...

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till...

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance

Abstinence is the surety of temperance

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman;...

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman;...

Time carries off all things; wouldst thou exchange - Name, looks, nature, luck? Just give...

Time carries off all things; wouldst thou exchange - Name, looks, nature, luck? Just give...

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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

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

Life must be lived as play.

Life must be lived as play.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be?...

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be?...

Tolerance is only another name for indifference

Tolerance is only another name for indifference

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you...

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you...