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

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Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

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Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

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And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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

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In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

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But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

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The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

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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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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

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By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

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A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

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You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

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