Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
PLATOAn empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
More Plato Quotes
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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