"Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men."
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"But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God."
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"We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime."
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"There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear"
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"wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state"
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"To harm another is to harm oneself"
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"The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul."
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"Be true to thine own self."
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"A multitude of books distracts the mind."
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"The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate."
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"Death offers mankind a full view of truth."
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"The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service."
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"Follow the argument wherever it leads."
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"If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all."
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"Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison."
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"I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you."
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"When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love."
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"The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him."
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"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
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"Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions."
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