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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

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Art has no end but its own perfection.

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For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

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Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

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Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

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Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

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One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

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The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

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I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

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A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

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Ideas are the source of all things

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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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