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Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.

Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.

Even the gods love jokes.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Love is a serious mental disease.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.