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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

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When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

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It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

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For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

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

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The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

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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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God is a geometrician.

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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

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The God of Love lives in a state of need.

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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

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