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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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

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Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

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Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

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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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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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