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Plato

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.


— Plato


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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.


— Plato


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


— Plato


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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.


— Plato


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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.


— Plato


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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.


— Plato


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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.


— Plato


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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.


— Plato


#little #much #penalty #speed #suffer

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.


— Plato


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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.


— Plato


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Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Plato's mother was Perictione whose family boasted of a relationship with the famous Athenian lawmaker and lyric poet Solon. Then at twenty-eight Hermodorus says [Plato] went to Euclides in Megara.

Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. In the words of A.

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