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Plato warns that a man who tries many tasks will never master any. He also says that careless language plants evil in souls and that harming a better man is wrong. Finally, he criticizes a society that teaches falsehood and calls truth‑tellers liars.

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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

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All men, well interrogated, answer well.

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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

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Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

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The proud man is forsaken of God.

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Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

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When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

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The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

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A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider…

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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it…

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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from…

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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to…

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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...…

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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if…

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer…

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Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies…

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“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only…

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For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out…

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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of…

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When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then…

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Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of…

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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among…

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“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject…

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The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object…

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Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several…

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Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning…

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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two…

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In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order.…

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Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and…

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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

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No man should be angry with what is true.

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to…

“He was a wise man who invented God.”

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm…

“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable…

Geometry existed before creation.

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men…