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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

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

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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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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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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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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

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

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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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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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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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Plato was a bore.

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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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

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

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

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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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