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  • Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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  • Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

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    Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.103, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

  • Do not expect justice where might is right.

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  • Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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  • The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

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  • Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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  • Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

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  • They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

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  • If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

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    Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.6020, Catholic Way Publishing

  • Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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

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    Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.349, Penguin

  • Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

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    Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.233, Cosimo, Inc.

  • Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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  • Philosophy is the highest music.

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    Plato (2016). “Apology Of Socrates And Crito”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

  • A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

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    Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.83

  • There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

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  • The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

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  • The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

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    Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.60, Courier Corporation
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Plato

  • Born: 428 BC
  • Died: 348 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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