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  • I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Block Quotes , Taken Quotes
  • He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Athlete Quotes , Men Quotes
  • How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Men Quotes , Mad Quotes