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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

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It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

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The proud man is forsaken of God.

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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

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I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

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God is a geometrician.

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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

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Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

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Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

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The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference between men and women is one of physical function- one begets, the other bears children. Apart from that, they both can and should perform the same functions - though men on a whole, perform them better and should receive the same education to enable them to do so; for in this way society will get the best value from both.

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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

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All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

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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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