In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by..[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.
Plato
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
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Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Ideas are the source of all things
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.. When he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). 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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