"I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good."
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"...the Gods too love a joke."
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"...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued."
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"There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas."
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"No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love"
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"A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!"
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"He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink."
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"I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth."
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"It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?"
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"There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power."
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"Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers."
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"The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown."
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"And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun."
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"The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods."
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"From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order."
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"Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them."
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"What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?"
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"I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know."
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"... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves."
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"[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion."
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