Francis Bacon Quotes, Plato Quotes, Imagination Quotes

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

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Knowledge is true opinion.

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

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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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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

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Science is nothing but perception.

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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

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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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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

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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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