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

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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

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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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The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.

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The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

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The good is the beautiful.

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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

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All knowledge is but remembrance.

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All men, well interrogated, answer well.

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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

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Geometry existed before creation.

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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

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It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

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