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Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

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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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May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

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You cannot go into the same water twice.

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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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All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

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Courage is a kind of salvation.

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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

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You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

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Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

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The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

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Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

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