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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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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ↗

— Plato

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Knowledge is true opinion. ↗

— Plato

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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. ↗

— Plato

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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. ↗

— Plato

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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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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. ↗

— 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 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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