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Ignoble Quotes by Plato
- To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
- Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping....
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- Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It]… — Eugene H. Peterson
- The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means… — George Stillman Hillard
- There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is… — Roland Barthes
- It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or… — Edwin Way Teale
- No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn
- Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued… — Aristotle
- Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace. — John Milton
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- Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will… — Neil Armstrong
- Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
- My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in… — Harlan Ellison
- My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths. — Harlan Ellison