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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

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The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.

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Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

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Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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You cannot conceive the many without the one.

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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

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Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

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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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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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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

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