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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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Truth is its own reward.

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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

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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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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

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

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The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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

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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

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Knowledge is true opinion.

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

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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

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