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

— Plato

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ↗

— Plato

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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ↗

— Plato

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Man - a being in search of meaning. ↗

— Plato

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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. ↗

— Plato

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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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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. ↗

— Plato

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. ↗

— Plato

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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. ↗

— Plato

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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. ↗

— Plato

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