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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

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The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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The God of Love lives in a state of need.

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Love is a grave mental illness.

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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

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To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

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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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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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Ideas are the source of all things

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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

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There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

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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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Is virtue something that can be taught?

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