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Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

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

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As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

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The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

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Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

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And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

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And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

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The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

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