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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

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He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

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Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

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The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

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

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

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

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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

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