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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.
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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.
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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
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I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.
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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
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