#us

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. ↗

— Plato

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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. ↗

— Plato

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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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Philosophy is the highest music. ↗

— 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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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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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? ↗

— Plato

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