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Plato
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Ancient Athens
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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
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By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.
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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.
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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
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Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
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A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
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If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.
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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
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To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
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