"The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls."
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"The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance."
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"I soon realized that 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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"You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve."
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"Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world."
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"The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves."
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"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."
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"Wisdom is knowing what you don't know."
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"Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds."
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"...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always."
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"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."
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"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful."
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"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
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"The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender."
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"Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit."
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"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."
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"I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether."
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"This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin."
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"The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods."
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"If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years."
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