"The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact."
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"Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?"
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"To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom."
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"To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it"
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"The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them."
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"To know, is to know that you know nothing."
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"You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it."
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"There is no illness of the body except for the mind"
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"Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads."
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"It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible."
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"Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?"
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"I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within."
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"No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable."
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"Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness."
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"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."
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"All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word."
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"The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible."
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"I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience."
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"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
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"Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure"
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