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Zeno: The many do not know that except by this devious passage through all things the mind cannot attain to the truth.

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Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn; c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (Akademia), the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Native Name: Πλάτων

Alternative Names: Plátōn • Platon • Aristocles • Αριστοκλής • Ἀριστοκλῆς

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

Zeno: The many do not know that except by this devious passage through all things the mind cannot attain to the truth. - Plato

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