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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

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

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Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

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States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

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When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

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What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

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The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

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... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

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Your dog is your only philosopher.

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

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