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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

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Those having torches will pass them on to others.

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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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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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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

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Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

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Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

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Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

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The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

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Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

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The race of the guardians must be kept pure.

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The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

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