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• Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

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  Sparks

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• You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

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  Doe, Needs, Firsts

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• To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

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  Ignorance, Curiosity, Ridiculous

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• I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

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  Death, Men, Hours

  Plato, M. G. Epictetus (2010). “The Apology, Phaedo and Crito by Plato; The Golden Sayings by Epictetus; The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

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  Army, Fighting, Men

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.80

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• We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in
  the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to
  know what we do not know.

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  Indulge In, Use, Fancy

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• And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

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  Children, Educational, Character

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• Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

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  Education, Plato, Amusement

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.32, University Press of America

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• There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

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  Kings, Philosophical, Humanity

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• Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

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  Love Is, Two, Trying

  Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.474, Hackett Publishing

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• Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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  Plato, May, Injustice

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.227, Xist Publishing

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• All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

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  Evil, Dishonorable

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.184, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Beauty is a natural superiority.

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  Beauty, Natural, Superiority

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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  Philosophical, Law, Understanding

  Plato (1926). “Laws”

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• All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

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  Dance, Art, Men

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• One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

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  Character, Reality, Words Of Wisdom

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• There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

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  Art, Three, Use

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.441, Courier Corporation

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• Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

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  Plato, Natural Talent, Training

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• Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

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  Freedom, Democracy, Glory

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

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  May, Deceiving, Said

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1384, Delphi Classics

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• Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

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  Education, Law, Youth

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.189

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• Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

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  Men, Bird

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

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  Beauty, Eye, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.107, Penguin

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• I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

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  Block, Taken, Men

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.396

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• In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

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  Dance, Order, Dancing

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