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The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

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You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.

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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

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When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

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The proud man is forsaken of God.

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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

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The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.

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You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

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At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

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The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.

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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

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