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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
[ Doctors ]
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
[ Heaven ]
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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
[ Democracy ]
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Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
[ Democracy ]
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
[ Wealth ]
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
[ Nations ]
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
[ Conflict ]
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
[ Crime ]
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
[ Control ]
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
[ Worry ]
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
[ Evil ]
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
[ Pleasure ]
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
[ Health ]
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
[ Parents ]
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
[ Teachers ]
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
[ Teachers ]
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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information -- never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good -- he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.
[ Reason ]
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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.
[ Cities ]
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