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Epigrammatist Inspirational Quotes (834)

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All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.
Xenophanes
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No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.
Xenophanes
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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
Plato
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The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.
Plato
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A big book is a big misfortune.
Callimachus
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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.
Plato
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato
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We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
Archilochus
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
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Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.
Xenophanes
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My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve
Ashleigh Brilliant
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If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.
Plato
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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
Plato
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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
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We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.
Plato
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I hope I never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
Plato
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...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.
Plato
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There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.
Plato
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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
Plato
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An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.
Plato
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