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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ↗

— Plato

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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. ↗

— Plato

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. ↗

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

— 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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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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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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