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Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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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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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

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If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

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For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

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The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

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Music gives a soul to the universe.

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Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

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Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

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Let brother help brother.

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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

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Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

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