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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. - Author object (97)

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. - Author object (97)

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Author object (97)

Love is a serious mental disease. - Author object (97)

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Author object (97)

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Author object (97)

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings. - Author object (97)

Those who tell the stories rule society. - Author object (97)

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with. - Author object (97)

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. - Author object (97)

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts. - Author object (97)

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? - Author object (97)

Human behavior flows from three main sources; desire, emotion, and knowledge. - Author object (97)

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. - Author object (97)

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one. - Author object (97)

Necessity is the mother of invention. - Author object (97)

Character is simply habit long continued. - Author object (97)

The measure of a man is what he does with power. - Author object (97)

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. - Author object (97)

I cannot live without books. - Author object (99)