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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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Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

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Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

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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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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

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. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

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There is truth in wine and children

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

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Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.

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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

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Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

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