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Science is nothing but perception.

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Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

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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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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

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

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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

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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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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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

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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

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It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

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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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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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