"Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world."
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"Through obedience learn to command."
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"The soul should concentrate itself by itself."
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"Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful."
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"Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it."
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"He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god."
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"Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not."
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"Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man."
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"O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven."
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"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."
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"Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people."
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"Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul."
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"No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding."
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"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."
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"Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil."
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"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature."
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"There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them."
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"Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed."
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"If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this."
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"Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated."
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