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In an honest man there is always something of a child.

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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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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

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The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

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Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

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The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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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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When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

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. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

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Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

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