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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

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What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

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The wisest have the most authority.

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To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

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The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

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If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

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Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

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When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

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The prisoner grows to love his chains.

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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

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