Greek - Philosopher | 427 BC - 347 BC
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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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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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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