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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

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

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So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

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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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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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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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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

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

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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

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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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