Greek - Philosopher | 427 BC - 347 BC
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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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.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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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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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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