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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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

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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

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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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And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

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

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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

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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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No human thing is of serious importance.

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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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

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