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We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

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You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

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No man should be angry with what is true.

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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

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Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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

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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

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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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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

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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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One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

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There is truth in wine and children

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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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