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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

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Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.

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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

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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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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

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The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

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We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.

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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

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