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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 be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ↗

— Plato

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ↗

— 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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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ↗

— Plato

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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. ↗

— Plato

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. ↗

— Plato

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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. ↗

— Plato

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

— Plato

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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. ↗

— Plautus

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If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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