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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.
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Excellent things are rare.
Plato
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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
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The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
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All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
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Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
Plato
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Plato
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Pleasure is the bait of sin.
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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.
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When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
Plato