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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

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...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.

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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

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I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

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...the Gods too love a joke.

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Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

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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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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

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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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Ideas are the source of all things

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