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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

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Knowledge is true opinion.

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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

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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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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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It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

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

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

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There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent

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Truth is its own reward.

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It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

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Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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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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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

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

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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