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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

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I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.

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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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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

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Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

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

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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

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