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• A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

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  Teacher, Honor, Degrees

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• No one ever dies an atheist.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Dies

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• I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

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  Children, Words Of Wisdom, May

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• We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

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  Wise, Plato, Heaven

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.8095, Catholic Way Publishing

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• To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

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  Pick Me Up, Victory, Development And Growth

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• If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

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  Spiritual, Soul, Body

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.11

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• Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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  Education, Wisdom, Plato

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• In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

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  Mean, Men, Order

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• Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

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  Air, Mind, Body

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• Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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  Writing, Soul, Geometry

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• What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

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  Live Life, Play, Careers

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• The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

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  Firsts, Steps, Destruction

  Plato (1964). “The Dialogues”

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• I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

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  Inspiring, Liars, Critics

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• How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

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  Inspirational, Dream, Philosophical

  Plato “Writings of Plato”, Lulu.com

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• Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

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  Ignorance, Soul, Sickness

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• The beginning is half of the whole.

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  Half, Whole

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.74

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• You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

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  Eye, Soul, Body

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.11

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• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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  Death, Memorial Day, Plato

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• Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

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  Education, Young, Ifs

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• Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

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  Persuasion, Knows, Seeking

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• The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

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  Unseen, Unchanging, Cycles

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• No man should be angry with what is true.

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  Men, Knowing Who You Are, Should

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• The life which is not examined is not worth living.

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  Life, Worth Living, Self Discovery

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• In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

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  Witty, Plato, Cities

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• Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

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  Life And Love, Power, Confined

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