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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

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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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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

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For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

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Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

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

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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

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For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, 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. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

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