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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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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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

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

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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.

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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

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

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

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

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The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

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