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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

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Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

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.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

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God is a geometrician.

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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

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The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

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Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

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An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

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Music gives a soul to the universe.

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Love is a severe mental disorder.

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Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

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No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

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