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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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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

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Love is a grave mental illness.

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If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

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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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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

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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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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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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

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Excellent things are rare.

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Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

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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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Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

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