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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

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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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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

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Even the gods love jokes.

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Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

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Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

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Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

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Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

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Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.

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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

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