Greek - Philosopher | 427 BC - 347 BC
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Plato
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
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To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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Democracy passes into despotism.
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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