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No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

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The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

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Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.

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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

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Is virtue something that can be taught?

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And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

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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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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

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We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

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Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

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I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

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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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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

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