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Ought Quotes by Plato
- 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…
- 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…
- No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
- The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
- It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
- You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
- The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be…
- But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death.…
- You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the…
- We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing...
- A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether…
- Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
More Ought Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. — John Ashcroft
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen