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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

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The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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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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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

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Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

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Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

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Wine fills the heart with courage.

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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

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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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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

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