"Self conquest is the greatest of victories."
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"Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends."
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"Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind."
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"All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance"
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"...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty."
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"Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists."
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"The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death."
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"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
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"The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers."
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"To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven."
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"Those having torches will pass them on to others."
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"In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes."
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"You cannot conceive the many without the one."
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"As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness."
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"All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing."
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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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"If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again."
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"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."
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