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Plato

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“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”— Plato
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“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”— Plato
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“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”— Plato
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“Courage is a kind of salvation.”— Plato
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“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”— Plato
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“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”— Plato
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“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”— Plato
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“They certainly give very strange names to diseases.”— Plato
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“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”— Plato
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“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”— Plato
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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”— Plato
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“The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.”— Plato
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“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”— Plato
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“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”— Plato
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“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”— Plato
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“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”— Plato
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“There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”— Plato
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“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”— Plato
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“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”— Plato
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“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”— Plato
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“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”— Plato
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“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”— Plato
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“Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.”— Plato
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“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.”— Plato
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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.”— Plato