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As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

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The life which is not examined is not worth living.

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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.

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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

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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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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

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You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

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Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

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Beauty is a natural superiority.

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Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

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Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

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

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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