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Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

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No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

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To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

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May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

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Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

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The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

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for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

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So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.

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And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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