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God is a geometrician.

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Plato
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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.
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Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection
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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
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Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.
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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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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
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You cannot go into the same water twice.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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