…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

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Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

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Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.

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To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates

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let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

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if you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange...they all consider death a great evil...and the brave among them face death, when they do, for fear of greater evils...therefore, it is fear and terror that make all men brave, except for philosophers. yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice...what of the moderate among them? is their experience not similar?...they master certain pleasures because they are mastered by others...i fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains, and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that they only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

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