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  • Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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    Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.249

  • Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

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  • False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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    Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

  • They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

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    Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.256, Penguin

  • Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

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  • What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

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  • Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

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    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”

  • You should not honor men more than truth.

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  • All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

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    Plato, Xenophon, Tom Griffith (2009). “On Socrates”, p.317, Collector's Library

  • Truth is its own reward.

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  • The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

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    Plato (1956). “The Republic”

  • Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

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    Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1640, Delphi Classics

  • God is truth and light his shadow.

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    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”
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  • Born: 428 BC
  • Died: 348 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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