Plato - Apology

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I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

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It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

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The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

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Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

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We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

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May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

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The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

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Socrates is a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth; and who does not believe in the gods of the state, but has other new divinities of his own. Such is the charge.

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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another.... Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

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