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The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

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No man should be angry with what is true.

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Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.

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

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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

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He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

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Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

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But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

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Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

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Our need will be the real creator.

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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

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But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

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And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

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