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Plato

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.


— Plato


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


— Plato


#ever #hardly #i #known #mathematician

I would fain grow old learning many things.


— Plato


#grow #i #learning #many #old

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.


— Plato


#must #particulars #universals

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


— Plato


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It is right to give every man his due.


— Plato


#every #every man #give #his #man

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


— Plato


#evil #fear #good #greatest #know

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


— Plato


#feet #flat #man #nails #two

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.


— Plato


#mightier #ordinance #than #understanding

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.


— Plato


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Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Plato's mother was Perictione whose family boasted of a relationship with the famous Athenian lawmaker and lyric poet Solon. Then at twenty-eight Hermodorus says [Plato] went to Euclides in Megara.

Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. In the words of A.

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