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epigrammatist Classical Athens

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[Wikidata] 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher... | [Wikipedia] Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosop

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• Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible… Abstract
• 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… Advantage
• Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. Arithmetic
• No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. Bold
• A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something. Fool
• Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent. Able
• Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. Children
• The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man. Bad
• Love is a serious mental disease. Disease
• In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill...… Administer
• Truth is its own reward. Inspirational
• The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. Education
• I have good hope that there is something after death. Death
• Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Ignorance
• Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. Appreciation
• 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… Accompanied
• Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which… Already Discovered
• They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. Certainly Give
• Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences. Alone
• Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. Attention
• They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. Deem
• Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done… Becoming
• Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. Art
• Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Aggravated
• The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Appear

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