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The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

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How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."

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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

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Courage is knowing what to fear.

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Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.

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But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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Love is the pursuit of the whole.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

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One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

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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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If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

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