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In an honest man there is always something of a child.

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The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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

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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

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If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

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Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

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The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.

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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

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Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

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