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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

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No one can escape his destiny.

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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.

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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

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You must base the Wisdom on Love.

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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

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I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

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What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

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...the Gods too love a joke.

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I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

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You should not honor men more than truth.

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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

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. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

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