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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
Libby Houston
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
Albert Claude
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 
Dmitri Mendeleev 
Jane Grey 
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis 
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The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
Libby Houston
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
Albert Claude
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All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Jane Grey
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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Desiderius Erasmus
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