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But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Men create the gods in their own image.
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
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