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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. ↗

— Plato

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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. ↗

— Plato

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. ↗

— Plato

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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. ↗

— Plato

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The beginning is the most important part of the work. ↗

— Plato

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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. ↗

— Plato

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. ↗

— Plato

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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ↗

— Plato

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

— Plato

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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. ↗