Plato quote: "Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good."

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we ...
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us ...
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they...
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at hom...
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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustic...
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Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all ...
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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of ...
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of ...
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest goo...
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only wha...
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and wo...
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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slaver...
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to ...
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they ca...
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourse...
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compu...
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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Democracy passes into despotism.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature...
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats ...
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evil...
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The good is the beautiful.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the l...
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opp...
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Necessity... the mother of invention.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and ...
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt yo...
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That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have s...
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by ...
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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual as...
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Truth is its own reward.
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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They are all parts of time, and the past and future are created species of time, which we unconsciou...
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who ha...
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He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an o...
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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have es...
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A well begun is half ended.
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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourse...
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a ...
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly ...
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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and ...
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The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the go...
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compuls...
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if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or ...
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their mind...
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with ...
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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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All learning has an emotional base.
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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, f...
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled t...
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledg...
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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich...
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than ev...
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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
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Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is ...
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Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of e...
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeabl...
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either ...
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like Go...
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what...
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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the...
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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely ...
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time d...
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ...
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simpl...
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel a...
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber...
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The wisest have the most authority
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
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The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking u...
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I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced tha...
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Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ...
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the go...
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics
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Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic government...
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The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
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Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in ...
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Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of o...
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best p...
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To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
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Even the gods love jokes
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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones,...
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Abstinence is the surety of temperance
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait...
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and ...
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under co...
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of d...
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since sty...
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, h...
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might ...
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man w...
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but ...
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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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