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Nay, Socrates," said Glaucon, "the measure of listening to such discussions is the whole of life for reasonable men". The Republic, 450c. — Plato

Little knowledge is dangerous thing — Er.teji

There is no wrong way to knit ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Seeking revenge is like reaching out for your own personal turmoil, it's never worth it. Righteousness will always come through Jesus Christ. — Ron Baratono

He talks like he's living in Plato's Republic, not Romulus's shit-hole. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Is our conception of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The Republic isn't as much fun as The Symposium. It's all long speeches, and nobody bursting in drunk to woo Socrates in the middle. — Jo Walton

For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it. — Huey Newton

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education. — Plato

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic." — Pete Seeger

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. — Plato

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that. — Nadine Gordimer

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me. — Raymond Moody

I want every part of you in my life, Jojo, when you're ready. — Heidi McLaughlin

George Washington became an official surveyor for Culpepper County at seventeen and a commissioned major in the militia at twenty; — Jennifer Senior

Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it. — Avi Arad

He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself. — Plato

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too. — Robert A. Heinlein

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity. — Plato

I will be a commodity, and I will be in demand and valuable. — Marie Calloway

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute. — Zig Ziglar

Although many believe that technology automatically enables more realistic expression, I believe that is just not correct. — Satoru Iwata

He is ugly and sad ... but he is all love.
Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger. — Mark Kurlansky

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. — Plato

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill? — Friedrich Nietzsche