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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

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That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

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The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

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Music gives a soul to the universe.

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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

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In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

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The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

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A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

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Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

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The good is the beautiful.

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True friendship can exist only between equals.

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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

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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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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

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