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The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

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

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I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

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'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

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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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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

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Life should be lived as play.

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Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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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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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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