Tag: Plato
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Plato
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Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato
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Democracy passes into despotism.
Plato
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Plato
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Plato
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
Plato
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Plato