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Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

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Plato, People, Age

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.

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Plato, Rivers, Gold
Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's lives”, p.59

Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.

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Plato, Sacrifice, Grace
"Life of Marius", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 689, 1922.

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