True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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We are in fact convinced that 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. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.
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Virtue is the beauty, and vice the deformity, of the soul.
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