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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

Plato
Knowledge, Words Of Wisdom, Meat
Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.38, Penguin

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato
Plato, Knowledge, Evil

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

Plato
Knowledge, People, Pleasure
Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.390, Xist Publishing

In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.

Plato
Knowledge, May, Masters

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato
Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

Plato
Knowledge, Science, Sake
Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES, David James VAUGHAN (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.251

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

Plato
Plato, Knowledge, Math

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

Plato
Knowledge, Science, Dedication

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