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And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

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Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

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It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

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Music gives a soul to the universe.

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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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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

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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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One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

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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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Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

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My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

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Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

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Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

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