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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

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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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Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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You cannot conceive the many without the one.

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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

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

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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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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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'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

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I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.

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Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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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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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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