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First Quotes by Plato
- The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
- The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which…
- We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to…
- And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then…
- And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and…
- For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
- Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
- Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all…
- They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on…
- The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or…
- 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…
- 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…
- There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not…
- Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from…
- The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the…
- For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be…
- [Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a…
- Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching…
- Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
- The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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