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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.


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PLATO Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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PLATO It is right to give every man his due.
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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.
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PLATO Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
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PLATO Courage is a kind of salvation.
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PLATO Love is a serious mental disease.
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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.
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PLATO They are all parts of time, and the past and future are created species of time, which we unconsciou...
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PLATO I have good hope that there is something after death.
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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 Even the gods love jokes
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PLATO Abstinence is the surety of temperance
PLATO Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait...
PLATO The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
PLATO I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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PLATO False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
PLATO Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under co...
PLATO You should not honor men more than truth.
PLATO The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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PLATO Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
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PLATO Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but ...
PLATO Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; t...
PLATO He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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PLATO There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
PLATO Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...
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.
PLATO Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort o...
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