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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

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Is virtue something that can be taught?

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The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

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The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

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If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

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Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

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In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

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