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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

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Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

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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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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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What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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God is truth and light his shadow.

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I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

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

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A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

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Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

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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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Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

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The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

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More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

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