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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

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

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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

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The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.

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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

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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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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

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Those having torches will pass them on to others.

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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

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For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.

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Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

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