Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
PLATOMan 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.
More Plato Quotes
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
PLATO