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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

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Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

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Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

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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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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

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Love is a severe mental disorder.

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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

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...the Gods too love a joke.

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For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

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States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

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...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

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I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

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Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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