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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

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Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

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Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

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As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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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. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

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