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But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Symposium
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.: Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology"

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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Attributed to Socrates, in Plato's "Phaedrus"
For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
You cannot step twice into the same river.: Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), In Plato, Cratylus
Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

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