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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

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Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

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The good is the beautiful.

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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

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You should not honor men more than truth.

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You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

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We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

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When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

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... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

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Music is a defining element of character.

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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

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