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Plato
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Ancient Athens
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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?
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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich these are at war with one another.
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
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No one ever dies an atheist.
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Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
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Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
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Again, truth should be highly valued if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians private individuals have no business with them.
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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.
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Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.
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We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.
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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency
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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance
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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?
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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.
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