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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

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Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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You must base the Wisdom on Love.

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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

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Everything changes and nothing remains still.

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As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

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The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

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Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

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And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

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Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

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