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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

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Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

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Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

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If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

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Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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A friend is a second self.

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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

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The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

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A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

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Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

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Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.

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But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.

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They should rule who are able to rule best.

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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

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