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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

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Your dog is your only philosopher.

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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

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He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

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He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

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Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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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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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

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Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

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