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. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

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'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

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To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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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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You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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Man is a biped without feathers.

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The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

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But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

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Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

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