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

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

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.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.

The 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.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a _x000D_ midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. _x000D_ We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", _x000D_ in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

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