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"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."
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"As clichA© as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence."
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"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."
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"Be fair, just and kind."
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"If you cannot lead, do not mislead."
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"When you write about justice, you better forget who is going to be hurt."
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"I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity."
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"It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity."
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"Delayed gratification is a major virtue that is missing from our society."
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"Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing."
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"No matter the amount of money a person may have , a dishonest way of life will cost him everything he has."
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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."
Law
"It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful."
Philosophy
"I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world."
Philosophy
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
Faith
"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
Forgiveness
"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."
Education
"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."
Power
"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."
Philosophy
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers."
Family
"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
Courage
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