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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.
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
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We do not learn. And what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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Plato (c. 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher who, along with his mentor Socrates and his student Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western and Greek philosophy. His best-known work is the Theory of Forms, according to which the sensible world is an imperfect copy of an intelligible world, of Forms or Ideas. Plato wrote numerous philosophical dialogues, in which Socrates is usually the main interlocutor. He founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. His ideas profoundly influenced philosophy, theology, science, and politics. He is considered one of the greatest thinkers of all time.