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

— Plato

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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ↗

— 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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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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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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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ↗

— Plato

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ↗

— Plato

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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. ↗

— Plato

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