"Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee."
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"Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil."
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"Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it."
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"Geometry existed before creation."
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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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"Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it."
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"You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year."
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"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."
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"The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort."
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"Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race."
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"There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself."
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"Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing."
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"The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy."
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"In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance."
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"In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions."
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"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions."
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"Pleasure is the bait of sin"
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"Courage is a kind of salvation."
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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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"Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them"
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