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Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

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Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

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The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

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Only the dead will know the end of the war.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

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If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

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Excellent things are rare.

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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

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We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

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Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

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