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Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

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That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

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

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No soul willfully does wrong.

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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

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The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

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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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It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

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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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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

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He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

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