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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ↗

— Plato

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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. ↗

— 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

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

— 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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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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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. ↗

— Plato

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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. ↗

— 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. ↗