"Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety."
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"Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors."
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"Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you."
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"Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul."
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"Man was not made for himself alone"
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"Love is the pursuit of the whole."
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"The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest."
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"The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not."
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"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."
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"Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes."
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"Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality."
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"If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice."
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"Abstinence is the surety of temperance."
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"Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly."
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"The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people."
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"I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times."
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"Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind."
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"It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself."
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"The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed."
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"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war"
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