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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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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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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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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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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

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

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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

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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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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

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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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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

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

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Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

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

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

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