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Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

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Pleasure is the bait of sin

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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

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So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

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Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

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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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Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

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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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Any peace is better than any war

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The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

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One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

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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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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

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