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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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Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

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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 our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

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According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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

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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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The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

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

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...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

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