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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

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There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, correspondin...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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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be acc...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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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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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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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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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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

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["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human b...more

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Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads ...more