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A man's praises have very musical and charming accents in another's mouth, but very flat and untunable in his own. - [Self-praise] Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. - [Grief] Fire burns only when we are near it, but a beautiful face burns and inflames, though at a distance. - [Face] He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce. - [Eating] It is only for those to employ force who possess strength without judgment; but the well advised will have recourse to other means. Besides, he who pretends to carry his point by force hath need of many associates; but the man who can persuade knows that he is himself sufficient for the purpose; neither can such a one be supposed forward to shed blood; for, who is there would choose to destroy a fellow citizen rather than make a friend of him by mildness and persuasion? - [Persuasion] Policy goes beyond strength, and contrivance before action; hence it is that direction is left to the commander, execution to the soldier, who is not to ask why, but to do what he is commanded. - [Soldiers] The divine nature is perfection; and to be nearest to the divine nature is to be nearest to perfection. - [Perfection] The sweetest of all sounds is praise. - [Praise] There's no condiment like appetite. - [Appetite : Cooking] 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. - Anabasis (bk. IV, ch. V) [Drinking] The most pleasing of all sounds that of your own praise. - Hiero (I, 14), (Watson's translation) [Praise] Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, he (Socrates) considered the government to be an aristocracy. - Memorabilia of Socrates (bk. IV, ch. VI) [Government]
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