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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.
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Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.
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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
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The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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