Tag: Plato
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
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The wisest have the most authority.
Plato
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato
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Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato