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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

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The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

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As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

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People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.

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A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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

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The wisest have the most authority.

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The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

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