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Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.
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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
Plato
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οὐκ εἰσὶν οἱ παμπλούσιοι ἀγαθοί
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According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Plato
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
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Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.
Plato -
He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.
Plato -
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
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And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
Plato
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Our need will be the real creator.
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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.
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If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.
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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
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Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
Plato -
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Plato