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For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

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The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

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Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no ...more

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I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has ...more

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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

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The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is n...more

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The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one...more

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Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by...more

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the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledg...more

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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are d...more

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...in the running of cities, virtually nothing is done by anyone that is conducive to political health, nor is there a single ally with whom one might...more

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There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey whi...more