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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

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Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

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You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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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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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

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States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

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The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

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Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

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According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

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No soul willfully does wrong.

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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

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