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That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.
-Plato
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Action(s)
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A well begun is half ended.
-Plato
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Age
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He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
-Plato
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Ancestry, Ancestors
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
-Plato
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Anger
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
-Plato
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Apathy
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
-Plato
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Astronomy
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
-Plato
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Atheism
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.
-Plato
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Beauty
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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
N.B.: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also: Napoleon Bonaparte.
-Plato, Symposium
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
-Plato
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Character
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
-Plato
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City Life, Cities
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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.
-Plato
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Conflict
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
-Plato
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Control
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
-Plato
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Crime
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
-Plato
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Death
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
-Plato
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
-Plato
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Deception/Lying
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
-Plato
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
-Plato
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Democracy
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Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
-Plato
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
-Plato
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Doctors
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Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
-Plato
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Education
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
-Plato
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
-Plato
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