“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”
Success“Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.”
Equality“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”
Success“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.”
Good“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
History“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
Education“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”
Art“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
Love“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”
Music“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Power“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
Imagination“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
Men“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.”
Good“To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.”
Love“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”
Alone“There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
Men“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”
Age“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
Good“Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.”
Equality“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”
Good“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”
Knowledge“Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.”
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