"I must yield to you, for you are irresistible."
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"And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty."
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"God forever geometrizes."
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"There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen."
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"Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness."
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"Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine."
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"No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory."
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"Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them."
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"Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways."
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"That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman."
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"Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger."
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"The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice."
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"[The Cretans have] more wit than words."
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"For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy."
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"Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm."
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". . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . ."
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"The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above."
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"The God of Love lives in a state of need."
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."
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"Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man."
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