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

— Plato

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

— Plato

#ill #live #may #men #nobody

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. ↗

— Plato

#arts #being #capable #hardly #human

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. ↗

— Plato

#man #memory #mix #ought #pursued

Man - a being in search of meaning. ↗

— Plato

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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

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

— Plato

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One man cannot practice many arts with success. ↗

— Plato

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