“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.