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Music is a defining element of character.

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Ignorance: the root of all evil.

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Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

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You must base the Wisdom on Love.

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I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.

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[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

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What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

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Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

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Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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