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

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Good Decision Knowledge Based

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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

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Twice Fight Faith With

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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

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Root Stem Evil Every

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The madness of love is the greatest of heavenâ€™s blessings.

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Love Heaven Blessing Madness

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

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Gain Wisdom Lover Honor

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

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False Word Evil Infect

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

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Politics End Participate Being

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He whom love touches not walks in darkness.

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Whom Love Touch Walk

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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.

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Tyrant Enemies Treaty Foreign

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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

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Excellence Gift Skill Practice

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

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Human Behavior Emotions Flows

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

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Direction Education Starts Future

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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

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Absurd Practice Prevails Country

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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Nation Curse Sort Action

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the law.

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Good Act Law Responsibly

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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

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Teach Same Work Thing

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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Alive Man Know One

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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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Work Most Part Important

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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

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State Music Change Danger

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The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, oneâ€™s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

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Soul Next World Culture

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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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Exercise Harm Body Hold

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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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Every Seem Most Desire

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The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

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Society Describe Grow Reality

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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

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Free Either Least Know

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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderment of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mindâ€™s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye.

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Sense Common Remember Eye

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It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

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Feel Own Grow Owe

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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

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Money Company Standard Value

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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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Price Good Evil Rule

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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 â€¦ we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

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Presume City State Eloquent

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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Liberty Most Extreme Slavery

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

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Object State Whole Class

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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.

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State Person Ought Good

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Democracyâ€¦ 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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Democracy Form Government Variety

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

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Wise Speak Fool Say

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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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Heart Sing Song Poet

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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

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Music Soul Universe Wing

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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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Kind Meet Battle Fighting

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â€œExcellenceâ€ is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act â€œrightlyâ€ because we are â€œexcellentâ€; in fact we achieve â€œexcellenceâ€ by acting â€œrightlyâ€.

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Excellence Gift Skill Practice

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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.

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Dirt Nourish Grow Stunt

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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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Hero Among Wise Found

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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Forgive Child Afraid Dark

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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

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Those Able See Beyond

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True friendship can exist only between equals.

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True Exist Equal Between

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

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Beauty Style Grace Depend

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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful.

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Moral Law Soul Universe

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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Angry Help Person Two

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The madness of love is the greatest of heavenâ€™s blessings.

Plato

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

Plato

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

Plato

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

Plato

He whom love touches not walks in darkness.

Plato

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.

Plato

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

Plato

Plato

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

Plato

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Plato

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Plato

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the law.

Plato

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

Plato

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, oneâ€™s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Plato

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

Plato

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

Plato

Plato

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Plato

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderment of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mindâ€™s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye.

Plato

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Plato

Plato

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

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 â€¦ we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Plato

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

Plato

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.

Plato

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

Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato

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.

Plato

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato

â€œExcellenceâ€ is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act â€œrightlyâ€ because we are â€œexcellentâ€; in fact we achieve â€œexcellenceâ€ by acting â€œrightlyâ€.

Plato

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.

Plato

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.

Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

â€œExcellenceâ€ is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act â€œrightlyâ€ because we are â€œexcellentâ€; in fact we achieve â€œexcellenceâ€ by acting â€œrightlyâ€.