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" For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. "

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" The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. "

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" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "

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

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

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" Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. "

" I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. "

" To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent. "

" Love is a serious mental disease. "

" The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out. "

" At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. "

" The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. "

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

" Philosophy begins in wonder. "

" The beginning is the most important part of the work. "

" Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. "

" The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. "

" When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. "

" Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. "

" We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. "

" No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. "

" Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety. "

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

" People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. "

" Knowledge is true opinion. "

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

" Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. "

" Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. "

" Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. "

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

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