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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

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The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

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Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

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

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The prisoner grows to love his chains.

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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

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The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

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The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

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No soul willfully does wrong.

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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

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God is a geometrician.

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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

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All knowledge is but remembrance.

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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

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A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

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