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

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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

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The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

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You can't do good if you don't feel good.

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SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?

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A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

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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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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

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

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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

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The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

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One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

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From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

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