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Better Quotes by Plato
- Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
- Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
- Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which…
- Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
- When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
- Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in…
- It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part,…
- And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of…
- O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse…
- What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character…
- Any peace is better than any war
- I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
- What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual,…
- The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference…
- Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
- The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
- More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
- We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than…
- Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
- There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
- Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be…
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- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius