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"Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them."
"If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals."
"The life which is not examined is not worth living."
"In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability."
"And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment."
"And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth."
"We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise."
"We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?"
"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."
"In an honest man there is always something of a child."
"All knowledge is but remembrance."
"The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine."
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."
"Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?"
"To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise."
"The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body."
"The proud man is forsaken of God."
"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."
"Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do."
"The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated."