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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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No one can escape his destiny.

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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

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There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

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All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

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The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

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Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

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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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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

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... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

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