"Geometry draws the soul towards truth."
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"The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'"
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"Love is a severe mental disorder."
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"So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic."
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"Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish."
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"It is right to give every man his due."
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"When the music changes, the walls of the city shake."
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"Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?"
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"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."
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"Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness."
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"The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes."
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"A work well begun is half-ended."
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"Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness."
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"The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful"
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"Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?"
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"And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals."
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"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."
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"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien."
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"Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day."
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"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom."
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