Tag: Plato

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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Man…is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death

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Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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No human thing is of serious importance.

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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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Philosophy is the highest music.

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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte.

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