Plato

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


— Plato


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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.


— Plato


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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.


— Plato


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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.


— Plato


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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.


— Plato


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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.


— 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.