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Results of search for Author: Plato - Page 2 of 6 Showing results 11 to 20 of 56 total quotations found.
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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
He was a wise man who invented God.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded...: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), _Phaedrus_
Philosophy is the highest music.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

Results from Poor Man's College:

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

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