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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

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Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

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Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

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When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

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That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.

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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

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The wisest have the most authority.

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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

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Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

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