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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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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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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

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

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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

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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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When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

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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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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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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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Plato was a bore.

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

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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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