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«Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the w»
«Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.»
«The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato»
«What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?»
«Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Truth | Keywords: dearer, Plato
«Plato, to incline to Christianity.»
«Plato was a bore.»
«The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.»
«Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: pedigree, pedigrees, Plato

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