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From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

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It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

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

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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

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Do thine own work, and know thyself.

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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

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Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

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

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Knowledge is true opinion.

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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.

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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

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