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In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.

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The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

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A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

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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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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

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

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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

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It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

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