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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

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It is right to give every man his due.

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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

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It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

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One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

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I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

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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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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

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I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

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Truth is its own reward.

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So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

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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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The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.

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The good is the beautiful.

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