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If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

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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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It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

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The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

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Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

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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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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

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We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

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Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

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