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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

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For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.

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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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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

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All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

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Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

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

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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

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You cannot conceive the many without the one.

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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

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