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...the Gods too love a joke.
Plato
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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .
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He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's uses base for the sake of money but this is not honourable.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.
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When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.
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Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
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And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.
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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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Only the dead will know the end of the war.
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A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.
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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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