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Plato

Plato (Greek: , Plátōn, "broad"428/427 BC – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece. He was also a mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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