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Far Quotes by Plato
- We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far…
- Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest,…
- ...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth…
- Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and…
- Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
- Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is…
- ... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole…
- There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
- The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
- To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
- The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because…
- There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
- 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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