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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.
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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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Music is a defining element of character.
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Geometry draws the soul towards truth.
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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.
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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 I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.
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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.
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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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