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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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

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

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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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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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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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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

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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 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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A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

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A well begun is half ended.

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Knowledge is true opinion.

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

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

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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

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