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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

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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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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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When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

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

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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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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

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

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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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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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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

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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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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

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