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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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The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

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Friends should have all things in common.

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Man was not made for himself alone

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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

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The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

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But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

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... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

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At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

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