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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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The life which is not examined is not worth living.

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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

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Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.

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Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

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Let brother help brother.

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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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The proud man is forsaken of God.

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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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