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"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."

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Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the Academy in Athens. He was a student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and his dialogues are foundational texts in Western philosophy.

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