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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

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Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

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Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

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Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

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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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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

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Do not expect justice where might is right.

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

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