Plato

Plato

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."
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"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."
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"One man cannot practice many arts with success."
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"Life must be lived as play."
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"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom."
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"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."
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"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."
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"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."
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"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
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"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."
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"Democracy passes into despotism."
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"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
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"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."
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"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
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"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
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"Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man."
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"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."
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"Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice."
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"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
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"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."
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