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In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.

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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

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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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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

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Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

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

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

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Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

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Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

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And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

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Everything changes and nothing remains still.

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Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.

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People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

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