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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

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The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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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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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

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Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

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Do thine own work, and know thyself.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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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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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

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For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

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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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Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

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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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