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Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

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Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

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No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.

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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

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Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.

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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

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