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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

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If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

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

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Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

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Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

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It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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As the government is, such will be the man.

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You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

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Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

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