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Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it.

Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

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Perfect, Justice, Understanding

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

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Atheist, Errors, Understanding
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”

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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Philosophical, Law, Understanding
Plato (1926). “Laws”

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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Plato, Math, Understanding

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

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Inspiration, Understanding, Talent
Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

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