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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

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Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

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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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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

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Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

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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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When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

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No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.

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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

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If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

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