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- Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
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