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Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

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Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

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The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education

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Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

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[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

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And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

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Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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