Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

~ Plato

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

~ Spinoza

The hottest love has the coldest end.

~ Socrates

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

~ Plato

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