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Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

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For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

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He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.

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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

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'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

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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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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

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The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

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The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

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Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

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Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

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Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

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When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

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