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The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

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The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

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Every man is a poet when he is in love.

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

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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

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Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

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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 prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

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Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

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You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

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