There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Plato Quotes
- The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
- Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
- Love is a serious mental disease.
- Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
- Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
- No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
- Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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