Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

-- Plato

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Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?

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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists or haters of ideas. –

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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. –

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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another....Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

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Knowledge is true opinion. –

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