"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
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"Music gives a soul to the universe."
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"Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals."
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"Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another."
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"The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality."
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"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."
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"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."
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"The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below."
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"True friendship can exist only between equals."
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"The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation."
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"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."
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"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."
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"The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal."
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"Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it"
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"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."
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"Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."
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"Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary."
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"I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency"
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"When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision."
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"Better a good enemy than a bad friend."
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