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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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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

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More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

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As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

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You should not honor men more than truth.

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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

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Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

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We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

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