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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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  His Love, Lovers, Counterfeit

  Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.312, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

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  Twins, Twin Sister, Seriousness

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• Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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  Art, Philosophical, Two

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

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  Inspirational, Loss, Mind

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• Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

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  Love Is, Deprivation, States

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• And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

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  Words Of Wisdom, Connected

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• Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

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  Children, Passion, Reality

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• It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

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  Evil, Noble, Return

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• The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

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  Divine Order, Divinity, Philosopher

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• The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

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  Would Be, Virtue, Given

  Plato (1900). “Symposium”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

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• The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.

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  Should, Cures, Whole

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• Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

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  Justice

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• Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

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  Children, Play, Force

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• When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

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  Wine, Men, Dinner

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• Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

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  Order, Lust, Sloth

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• The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

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  Love, Men, Passionate

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• Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

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  Inspiration, Men, Blessing

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• Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

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  Self, Contentment, Foundation

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• The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

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  Suffering, Injustice

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• For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

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  Matter, Way, Trifling

  'The Republic' VIII, 352d

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• No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

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  Law, Citizens, Care

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• Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

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  People, Priorities, Care

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• The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

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  Men, Perfect, Soul

  Plato, Francis Bacon, Ignatius Donnelly, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, William Scott-Elliot (2016). “THE ATLANTIS COLLECTION - 6 Books About The Mythical Lost World: Plato’s Original Myth + The Lost Continent + The Story of Atlantis + The Antedeluvian World + New Atlantis: The Myth & The Theories”, p.23, e-artnow

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• Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

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  Change, Plato, Government

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

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  Wise, Ignorance, Evil

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.102, Penguin

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