"That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness."
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"Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this."
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"For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."
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"And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?"
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"He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts"
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"At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters."
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"I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them."
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"You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls."
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"He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler."
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"One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy."
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"When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one."
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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
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"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."
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"To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead."
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"Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell."
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"And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands."
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"Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?"
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"So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice."
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"...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people."
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"The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting."
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