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Men Quotes by Plato
- The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
- The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
- Man is a being in search of meaning.
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
- He was a wise man who invented beer.
- No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
- When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
- He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
- There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
- No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
- A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
- The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
- 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…
- Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with…
- States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
- Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
- There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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