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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

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The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.

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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

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The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.

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