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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

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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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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

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And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

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For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

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...the Gods too love a joke.

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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

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According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

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'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

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Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

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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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