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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

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

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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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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Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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