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Use Quotes by Plato
- 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.
- 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…
- 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,…
- At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred…
- What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character…
- I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt…
- And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not…
- Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
- Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
- 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,…
- Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.
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