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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. ↗

— Plato

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. ↗

— Plato

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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. ↗

— Plato

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With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses. ↗

— James K. Polk

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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. ↗

— Plato

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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. ↗

— Plato

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. ↗

— Plato

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

— Plato

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. ↗

— Plautus

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The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor. ↗

— Oliver Platt

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