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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is 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.
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.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Philosophy is the highest music.
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 is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.