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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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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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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

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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 first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

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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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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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

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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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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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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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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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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

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