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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.
It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at those schools!
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.
My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory)
Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato.
The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.