"Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods."
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"We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live."
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"Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers."
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"If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself."
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"...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone."
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"In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes."
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"Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject."
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"Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power."
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"Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe."
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"Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order."
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"When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence."
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"Love is a grave mental illness."
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"Where love reigns, there's no need for laws."
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"The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit."
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"Let brother help brother."
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"The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging."
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"Let nobody speak mischief of anybody."
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"Nothing ever is, everything is becoming."
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"The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be."
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"The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise."
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