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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

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To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.

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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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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

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No soul willfully does wrong.

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For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

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Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

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The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

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One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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Philosophy begins in wonder.

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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

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The race of the guardians must be kept pure.

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