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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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For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

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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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Science is nothing but perception.

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Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

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

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Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.

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The God of Love lives in a state of need.

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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

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Your dog is your only philosopher.

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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

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