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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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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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Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

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Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

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The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

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Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

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A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

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The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

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Is virtue something that can be taught?

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The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

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