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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

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Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

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Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

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Adultery is the injury of nature.

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By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

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In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

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If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

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The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

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

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Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

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