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One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

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Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

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No one ever dies an atheist.

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Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

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True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.

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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

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So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

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Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

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Our need will be the real creator.

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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

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