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Each living creature is said ...

Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.

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According to Diotima, Love is...

According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

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Violent pleasures which reach...

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

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If anyone comes to the gates ...

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

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Of all the things which a man...

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

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The natural function of the w...

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

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What I say is that 'just' or ...

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

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The Graces sought some holy g...

The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

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That makes me think, my frien...

That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

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Thus does the Muse herself mo...

Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

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People regard the same things...

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

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The love, more especially, wh...

The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

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He seemeth to be most ignoran...

He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

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The well-nurtured youth is on...

The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

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And tell him it's quite true ...

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

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For though a man should be a ...

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

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You cannot conceive the many ...

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

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[Not enough is known about so...

[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

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To fear death, gentlemen, is ...

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

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Now nothing can be more impor...

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

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