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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.

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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

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A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

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I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

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... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

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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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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

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