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No human thing is of serious importance.

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Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

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

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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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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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

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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 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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Truth is its own reward.

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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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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A well begun is half ended.

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

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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

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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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