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"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." -
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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 Knowledge
"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."
"Information is not knowledge."
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
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