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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

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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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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

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When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

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Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

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The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

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Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

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A house that has a library in it has a soul.

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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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