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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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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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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

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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 income.

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No human thing is of serious importance.

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A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

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There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent

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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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