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Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quic...more

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompan...more

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Knowledge is the food of the soul.

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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with...more

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The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

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For to fear death, men, is in fact nothing other than to seem to be wise, but not to be so. For it is to seem to know what one does not know: no one k...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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Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.