#tho

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. ↗

— Robert Plant

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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. ↗

— Plato

#apply #both #cannot #crop #cultivation

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ↗

— Plato

#awake #dream #how #moment #our

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. ↗

— Plato

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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ↗

— Plato

#larger #lesser #lie #say #stones

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. ↗

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

— 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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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. ↗

— Plato

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