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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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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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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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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

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

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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

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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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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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

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Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

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[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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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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Truth is its own reward.

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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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