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"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."
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"All authority belongs to the people."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."
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"Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!"
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"Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace."
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"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee..."
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"Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."
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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
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"O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him."
Prayer
"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."
Education
"The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out."
Desire
"Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine."
Poetry
"This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others."
Virtue
"Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies."
Education
"Justice is useful when money is useless."
Justice
"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any."
Excellence
"The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams."
Ethics
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