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Plato was a bore.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

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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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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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Knowledge is true opinion.

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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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A well begun is half ended.

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Man is a being in search of meaning.

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

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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

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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 price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

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Truth is its own reward.

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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

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