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States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

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No human thing is of serious importance.

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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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No one can escape his destiny.

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That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

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The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

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The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.

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Music is a defining element of character.

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

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Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

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The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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