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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

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God is a geometrician.

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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

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And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

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We become what we contemplate.

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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

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Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

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He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

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.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

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

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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

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