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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

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The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.

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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

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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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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.

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Man is a biped without feathers.

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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

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He who love touches walks not in darkness.

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I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.

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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

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A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

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Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

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But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

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