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Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

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Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

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The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

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But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

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

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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

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Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.

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The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

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[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

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To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

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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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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

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