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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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Truth is its own reward.

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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

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

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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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Science is nothing but perception.

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No human thing is of serious importance.

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It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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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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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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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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

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Plato was a bore.

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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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It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

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When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

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