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...the Gods too love a joke.

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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.

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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

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All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

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It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

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Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

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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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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

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There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

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Life should be lived as play.

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