"It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke."
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"What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?"
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"Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated."
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"The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily."
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"When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment."
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"Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like."
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"Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?"
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"It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine."
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"God is a geometrician."
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"... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge."
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"For good nurture and education implant good constitutions."
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"Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful."
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"Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance."
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"Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not"
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"A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad."
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"There is no other start to philosophy but wonder."
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"Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt."
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"He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life."
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"Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals."
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"Our need will be the real creator."
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