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Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

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The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

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And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

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A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

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The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

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If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

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I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

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The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

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As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

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If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

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More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

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But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

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