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Plato famously said, "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."Plato = ancient Athenian philosopher who did much to influence Western thinking (428-347 BC)
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A memory trick to remember the relationships between Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander the Great is to put them in reverse alphabetical order: Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle, who taught Alexander the Great.
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How many copies of Shakespeare and Plato?† (source)
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He's substantially heavier than Adam Smith or Plato.† (source)
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Now we are going to meet the three great classical philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.† (source)
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Plato, Sophocles, Homer, Dryden, Coleridge, Shelley, Shaw.† (source)
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Pagan Greeks did it-Plato called it theornania.† (source)
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Can you talk about Plato and Giordano Bruno?† (source)
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It was the general who had given our cocker spaniel his name, Farsi for "Plato," because, he said, if you looked hard enough and long enough into the dog's filmy black eyes, you'd swear he was thinking wise thoughts.† (source)
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As pure and transcendent as any Idea which ever cast a shadow into Plato's dark cave of our perceptions.† (source)
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Nico had once read a story from Plato, who claimed that in the ancient times, all humans had been a combination of male and female.† (source)
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soldiers back from the grave, and the many thousands who were later to die-villagers with terrible burns, little kids without arms or legs-yes, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were there, and a couple of popes, and a first lieutenant named Jimmy Cross, and the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War, and Jane Fonda dressed up as Barbarella, and an old man sprawled beside a pigpen, and my grandfather, and Gary Cooper, and a kind-faced woman carrying an umbrella and a copy of Plato's Republic, and a million ferocious citizens waving flags of all shapes and colors-people in hard hats, people in headbands-they were all whooping and chanting and urging me toward one shore or the other.† (source)
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After three weeks it was no longer incomprehensible to us that a braided postman should have more authority over us than had formerly our parents, our teachers, and the whole gamut of culture from Plato to Goethe.† (source)
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And hanging the antique broad-brim on a bust of Plato, Jo read her letters.† (source)
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Plato said everything in the world is just the shadow of some real thing we can't see.† (source)
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A benevolent dictator is best, as Plato himself realized.† (source)
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