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Being Quotes by Plato
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
- Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
- 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…
- Man - a being in search of meaning.
- Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much…
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