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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?

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The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.

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Only the dead have seen the end of war

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.

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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

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The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her

culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

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