No human thing is of serious importance.

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Plato ( PLAY-toh; Ancient Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn; c. 428–347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and...

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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

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Look at the typical American family scene: Man walking around farting. Woman walking around scratching. Kids going around hollering. Hey, man, fuck that.

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Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.

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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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