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“Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.” quote by Plato — Download Open image

“Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.”

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that…

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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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“He was a wise man who invented God.”

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