"To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art."
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"Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy."
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"It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life."
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"To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base."
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"Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity."
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"The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt."
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"The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful."
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"Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end."
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"SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?"
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"Man is a biped without feathers."
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"As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead."
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"And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine"
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"Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine."
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"If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly."
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"Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay"
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"Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed."
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"If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant."
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"The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man."
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"I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other."
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"Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence."
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