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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

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.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

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A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

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Only the dead will know the end of the war.

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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

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And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

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

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Those who tell the stories rule society.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

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It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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