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“So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.” quote by Plato — Download Open image

“So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.”

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Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True…

Its a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.

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Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

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“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

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It comes a moment that someone says something really small, but fits so perfect into your heart that everything start to make sense!!

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