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"Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable." Plato Quotes  
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Plato was a classical Greek philosopher. He was the student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. These are just a few of his influential words.

	Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
	Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
	At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
	You can learn more about a man in an hour of play, than in a year of conversation.
	Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
	I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
	A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
	Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other.
	Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
	God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
	The gods are not magicians who transform themselves; neither do they deceive mankind in any way.
	The beginning is the most important part of the work.
	When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
	Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away...A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
	The unexamined life is not worth living.
	No evil can happen to a good man, neither in life nor after death.
	Friends have all things in common.
	There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance.
	Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.
	No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
	One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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