Plato

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“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”

— Plato

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The transcendentals (Latin: transcendentalia, from transcendere “to exceed”) are the properties of being, nowadays commonly considered to be truth, beauty, and goodness. The concept arose from medieval scholasticism.

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay … inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

— Plato