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- But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), in Symposium
- I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic.
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
- Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- 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_
- Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves... So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
- Todd Andrew Reid
- Philosophy is the highest music.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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