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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

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Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

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It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

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You should not honor men more than truth.

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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.

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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

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