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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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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.
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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.