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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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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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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

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Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

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When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

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I like people who like Plato.

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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

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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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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

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