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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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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by 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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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ↗

— Plato

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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. ↗

— Plato

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? ↗

— Plato

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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. ↗

— Plato

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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. ↗

— Plato

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There is no harm in repeating a good thing. ↗

— Plato

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