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The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

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Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

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It is right to give every man his due.

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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

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Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

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The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

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All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.

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Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

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Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

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Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

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