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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

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The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

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The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

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Love: a grave mental disease.

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You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

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Do thine own work, and know thyself.

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My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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