Even now I'm well aware that if I allowed myself to listen to him I couldn't resist but would have the same experience again. He makes me admit that, in spite of my great defects, I neglect myself and instead get involved in Athenian politics. So I force myself to block my ears and go away, like someone escaping from the Sirens, to prevent myself sitting there beside him till I grow old.


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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; t...
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should ...
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it ...
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of in...
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort o...
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