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

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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

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Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

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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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And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

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By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

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The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

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An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

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Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

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Do thine own work, and know thyself.

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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

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Art has no end but its own perfection.

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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

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