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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the ha...more

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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings a...more

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Philosophy is the highest music.

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Ideas are the source of all things

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

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Time is the moving image of eternity.

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Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is grea...more

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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 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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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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Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not beli...more