"For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?"
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"Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men."
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"Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent."
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"Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls."
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"Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature."
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"Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say."
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"Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route."
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"We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
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"There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman."
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"The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing."
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"Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees."
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"No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils."
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"As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."
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"Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable."
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"Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise."
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"And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?"
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"No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man."
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"The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death."
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"Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble."
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"Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?"
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