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Quotations by author » Plato
Ancient Greek Philosopher He was the world's most influential philosopher. 428 BC-348 BC
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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stretching it to something the statute didn't intend.
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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
Politicians
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Beginning
The car just seemed to be different in qualifying this afternoon to how it was in free practice
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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.
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
EducationGraduation
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine
Eyes
The fact that he [Fitzgerald] asked for authority that he probably already had, but wanted spelled out, makes it arguable that he had run into something rather quickly,
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The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.
Victory
The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus they found, and that with ease, The soul of Aristophanes
GraceMind
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
LivingWealth
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics
MathematicsThinkingThought
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
KnowledgeLearning
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
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