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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

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Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

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The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

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

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Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

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For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

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Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

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Those who tell the stories rule society.

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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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