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Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.

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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

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There is truth in wine and children

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The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

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He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

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Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

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God forever geometrizes.

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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

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Friends should have all things in common.

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The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.

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The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

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