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It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

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A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

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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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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

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The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

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