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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

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

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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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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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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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You should not honor men more than truth.

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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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Wine fills the heart with courage.

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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

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The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

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Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

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Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

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

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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

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