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But if with your mind's eye you regard the absolute great and these many great things in the same way, will not another great appear beyond, by which all these must appear to be great?
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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
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Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato
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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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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.
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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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There is no one who ever acts honestly in the administration of states, nor any helper who will save any one who maintains the cause of the just.
Plato
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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
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It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.
Plato
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Those having torches will pass them on to others.
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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
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And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.
Plato