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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

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There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

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Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

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The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.

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Beauty is a natural superiority.

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You should not honor men more than truth.

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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

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