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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

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

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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

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It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

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Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

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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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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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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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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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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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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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