🔬 Wisdom
... When someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.
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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
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...And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...
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The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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