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“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”

— Robin Waterfield

“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They…

— Sarah Bakewell

“Two people were not one,”

— Robert Ludlum

“Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a head of…

— Sarah Crossan

“Plato is proved to be more religious than these men, for he allowed that the same God was both just and good,”

— The Church Fathers

“It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Plato’s philosophy, “In life be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

— Nikki Sex

“Two is one and one is none.”

— Marc Cameron

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“if two people think and say the same thing about everything, then one of them is not necessary.”

— Ben Carson

Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.

— Thomas McEvilley

“We are three. Even when we are just two, we are three.”

— Meg Rosoff