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"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil." -
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Good & Evil
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Top 5 quotes from Plato
"No human thing is of serious importance."
"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."
"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
Top 5 quotes from Education, Good & Evil
"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost."
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
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