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For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.

By Plato

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

By Plato

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

By Plato

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

By Plato

Excellent things are rare.

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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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, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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Death is not the worst than can happen to men.

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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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Courage is a kind of salvation.

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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

By Plato

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another

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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.

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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

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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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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

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