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Plato
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Ancient Athens
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.
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...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.
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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.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.
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You must base the Wisdom on Love.
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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.
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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.
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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
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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.
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We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.
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