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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

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The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

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God is a geometrician.

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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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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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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

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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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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

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Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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Everything changes and nothing remains still.

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Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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