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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

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That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

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Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

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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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He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

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To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

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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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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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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

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The good is the beautiful.

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Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.

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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

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

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Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

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True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.

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