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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

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For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

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A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason h...more

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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom lovers of honour lovers of gain.

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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

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

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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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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens l...more