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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

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And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

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Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

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From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

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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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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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

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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

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...the Gods too love a joke.

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