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"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."

"Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."

"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."

"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

"Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions."

"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."

"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."

"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
Nature

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

"Nature does nothing uselessly."
Nature

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

"The law is reason, free from passion."

"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics."

"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way."
Nature

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