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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might ha...more

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One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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It is right to give every man his due.

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The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my...more

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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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And yet 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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O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with wha...more

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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet

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...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (...more

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if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great nonsense of mortality, b...more