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The beginning is the most important part of the work. ↗

— Plato

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

— Plato

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

— Plato

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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ↗

— Plato

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

— Plato

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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

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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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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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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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If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! ↗

— Andrei Platonov

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