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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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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

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And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.

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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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In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

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Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

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A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

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For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

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Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

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