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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

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Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

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It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

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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 prisoner grows to love his chains.

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When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

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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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In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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Life should be lived as play.

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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

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There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

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

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

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