"Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city."
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"If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability."
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"The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless."
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"The beginning is the chiefest part of any work."
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"Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them."
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"Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils."
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"Any peace is better than any war"
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"Every unjust man is unjust against his will."
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"The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion."
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"A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods."
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"How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master.""
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"But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best."
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"Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction."
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"Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues."
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"If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept."
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"The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth."
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"What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose."
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"A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful."
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"If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection"
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"It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice."
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