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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.


— Plato


#conceive #i #mankind #many #needs

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.


— Plato


#any #anything #came #come #did

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.


— Plato


#end #his #lame #life #man

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.


— Plato


#done #great #happens #intend #just

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.


— Plato


#little #much #power #same #steals

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.


— Plato


#consent #gives #i #shall #silence

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.


— Plato


#community #neither #noblest #nor #poverty

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.


— Plato


#always #any #bettered #curse #immediate

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.


— Plato


#ever #injustice #made #more #suffers

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.


— Plato


#anxiety #great #men #nothing #worthy






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Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Plato's mother was Perictione whose family boasted of a relationship with the famous Athenian lawmaker and lyric poet Solon. Then at twenty-eight Hermodorus says [Plato] went to Euclides in Megara.

Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. In the words of A.

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