Greek - Philosopher | 427 BC - 347 BC
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
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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.
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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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.
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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