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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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

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We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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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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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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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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A well begun is half ended.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

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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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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

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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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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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Plato was a bore.

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Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

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Science is nothing but perception.

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

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