That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we ... PLATO At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. PLATO Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. PLATO To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. PLATO The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. PLATO When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. PLATO Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety. PLATO A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us ... PLATO If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. PLATO Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. PLATO Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. PLATO Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they... 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PLATO Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. PLATO Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity. PLATO Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled t... PLATO There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledg... PLATO Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich... PLATO The first and the best victory is to conquer self. PLATO I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than ev... PLATO Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. PLATO Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is ... PLATO Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of e... 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