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An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

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Plato
Epigrammatist
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Ancient Athens
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Aristocles
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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
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No man should be angry with what is true.
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Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
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In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us and we are free, and masters of others and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.
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Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.
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It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.
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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.
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Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.
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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.
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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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.
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.
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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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