#ay

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

— Plato

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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

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. ↗

— Plato

#ill #live #may #men #nobody

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. ↗

— Plato

#everybody #life #mouth #saying #sojourn

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. ↗

— Plato

#allowed #either #good #home #lie

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. ↗

— Plato

#destinies #happening #legislate #man #never

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ↗

— Plato

#evil #fear #good #greatest #know

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. ↗

— Plato

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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. ↗

— Plato

#benefit #conferred #injure #may #often

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act? ↗

— Andrei Platonov

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