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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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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. ↗

— Plato

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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. ↗

— Plato

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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. ↗

— Plato

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. ↗

— Plato

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Democracy passes into despotism. ↗

— Plato

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

— Plato

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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. ↗

— Plato

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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. ↗

— 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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