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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

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Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

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For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

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Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

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Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

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Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

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True friendship can exist only between equals.

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The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

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