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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.
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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Geometry existed before creation.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
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.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.
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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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In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.
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The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul; and we must take care, my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when he praises what he sells, like the dealers wholesale or retail who sell the food of the body; for they praise indiscriminately all their goods, without knowing what are really beneficial or hurtful.
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When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.
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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
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The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.