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- False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done…
- Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet…
- Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to…
- Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered…
- Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the…
- 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…
- Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
- Only the dead will know the end of the war.
- 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…
- Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
- In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
- Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
- Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
- We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
- The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark…
- Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this…
- Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty,…
- I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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