Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato
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BENJAMIN JOWETT One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast
ARISTOTLE It is not in the power of the devil to do so much harm, as God can do good; nay, we may be bold to s...
JOHN DONNE No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JONSON Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
VOLTAIRE Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do
VOLTAIRE Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any ot...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any ot...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... We both know... that soon everything is going to end...
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DEYTH BANGER What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
VOLTAIRE Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do
VOLTAIRE A good speech can make a crying man cry another man...
THESULA GUYRUKA ILESINGHE Do not seek to rule any man other than yourself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.
KIN HUBBARD The man who says "I may be wrong, but - " does not believe there can be any such possibility
KIN HUBBARD Think not of what you can do, but of what you cannot!
JALAL ERRAZI If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
KURT VONNEGUT You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JAMES D. MILES You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
MALCOLM FORBES Whilst I may look good, I do find it hard to find the right man.
MARIE HELVIN Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.
LEIGH BARDUGO Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.
ANNE BISHOP A good man will never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with ot...
SUZY KASSEM There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a no...
TERRY PRATCHETT I do think it's a big mistake to assume that creating this new big department is the be-all and end-...
BILL CLINTON I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.
DōGEN Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm
GEORGE ELIOT A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
ROBERT BROWNING No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fi...
JOHN LOCKE I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who...
GILBERT PARKER I came into this world, not cheifly to make this a good place to live in, but live in it, be it good...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
MARCUS GARVEY You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease mis...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it ag...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it a...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what i...
SUZY KASSEM Every woman has its beauty, but not every man can recognize it.
ALAA ABI JOMAA Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones th...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER [By 1985], machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.
HERBERT SIMON I think any man would be happy about this time. I think she can skate easily to the title.
CLAUDIA PECHSTEIN Just because one bad apple is rotten it shouldn't or doesn't mean that the rest of the crate is too....
GARY F EVANS... No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, with...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. ...
FARRAH FAWCETT God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. ...
FARRAH FAWCETT To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
ALEXIS CARREL Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
JAMES BOSWELL 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
ROBERT BROWNING 'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.
ROBERT BROWNING A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
MARTIN LUTHER When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.
EDWARD W. HOWE A man may blaspheme against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but the sin against the Spirit of Truth ...
ALEXANDER MILLER No man may make another free.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, wit...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, withou...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, with...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, wit...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.
DAVID GEMMELL A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
ELBERT HUBBARD Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.
LAWRENCE LESSIG I'm not a very good yes man, and I'm not very easily controlled.
BROCK LESNAR There may be another coup, but I don't know what we can do,
LYNDON JOHNSON The Lord will never fail you like every man and woman can do and will.
JAIME CONTRERAS When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a...
MARK CAINE Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou...
JOHN DONNE I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD He was a wise man who invented beer.
PLATO Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man
SIGMUND FREUD The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you ...
MALCOLM X One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every
day alike. Let every man be full...
BIBLE A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
ANNE HUTCHINSON Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY
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PLATO When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
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PLATO Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
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PLATO Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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PLATO Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
PLATO Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PLATO It is right to give every man his due.
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PLATO When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to ...
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PLATO Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
PLATO All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourse...
PLATO No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compu...
PLATO I would fain grow old learning many things.
PLATO Science is nothing but perception.
PLATO It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
PLATO The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
PLATO He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
PLATO As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
PLATO We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
PLATO Democracy passes into despotism.
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PLATO Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
PLATO Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
PLATO Philosophy begins in wonder.
PLATO The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
PLATO Courage is a kind of salvation.
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PLATO The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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PLATO The good is the beautiful.
PLATO To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
PLATO Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
PLATO The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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PLATO Man - a being in search of meaning.
PLATO Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
PLATO For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
PLATO The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PLATO Love is a serious mental disease.
PLATO This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
PLATO Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
PLATO Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
PLATO He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opp...
PLATO When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
PLATO All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
PLATO Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
PLATO Life must be lived as play.
PLATO Necessity... the mother of invention.
PLATO He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
PLATO There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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PLATO Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
PLATO The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
PLATO If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
PLATO The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATO People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt yo...
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PLATO Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
PLATO Man is a being in search of meaning.
PLATO If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual as...
PLATO Truth is its own reward.
PLATO They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
PLATO They are all parts of time, and the past and future are created species of time, which we unconsciou...
PLATO Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
PLATO Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
PLATO For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who ha...
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PLATO Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have es...
PLATO A well begun is half ended.
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PLATO Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly ...
PLATO Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
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PLATO The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the go...
PLATO We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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PLATO if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or ...
PLATO if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or ...
PLATO Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their mind...
PLATO Only the dead have seen the end of war.
PLATO Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
PLATO They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
PLATO States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
PLATO Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
PLATO The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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PLATO Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
PLATO Even the gods love jokes.
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PLATO The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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PLATO Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
PLATO Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
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PLATO There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledg...
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PLATO The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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PLATO Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
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PLATO Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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PLATO Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
PLATO Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what...
PLATO Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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PLATO The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time d...
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PLATO I have good hope that there is something after death.
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PLATO The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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PLATO The wisest have the most authority
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PLATO The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair
Across the tide to see her image there:
Then looking u...
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PLATO Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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PLATO This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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PLATO The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics
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PLATO False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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PLATO Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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PLATO Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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PLATO Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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