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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

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The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

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The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

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Philosophy begins in wonder.

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Only the dead will know the end of the war.

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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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He who love touches walks not in darkness.

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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

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