Quotes 41 till 60 of 117.
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Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
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Just as those who do not love Plato more than truth cannot pass beyond the threshold of Academe, so those who do not love beauty more than truth never know the inmost shrine of art.
The Decay of Lying (1889) -
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
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Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
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