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Own Quotes by Plato
- The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of…
- In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
- Truth is its own reward.
- 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…
- For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their…
- To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens,…
- The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
- And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives…
- The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour,…
- And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who…
- To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
- The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog…
- . . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made…
- The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has…
- ...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have…
- Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait,…
- Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
- And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something…
- All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance
- The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of…
- Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
- Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
- The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at…
- The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems,…
- Art has no end but its own perfection.
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
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