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• How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

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• Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

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• I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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• I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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• I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

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• If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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• Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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• It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

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• Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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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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• It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

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• Man – a being in search of meaning.

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• Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

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• Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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• It is right to give every man his due.

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• Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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• Knowledge is true opinion.

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• Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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• Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

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• No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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Plato (212)

Birth:	427 BC
Death:	347 BC
Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Philosopher

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