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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), Quoted in: Plato's Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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Necessity, who is the mother of invention.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Only the dead have seen the end of war.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Laws

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