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Doing Quotes by Plato
- The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
- Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others…
- Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
- Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and…
- The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has…
- The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
- I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation,…
- Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the…
- Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
- Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
- Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
- A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether…
- I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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