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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

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You can't do good if you don't feel good.

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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

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

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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

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

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

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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God is truth and light his shadow.

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

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For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

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Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

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I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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