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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

~Plato

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The wisest have the most authority.

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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

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Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: Unknown

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