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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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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.

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

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I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.

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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike oak-trees to the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can. But the old statesman knows that society is fluid; there are no such roots and centres; but any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement, and compel the system to gyrate round it, as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus, or Cromwell, does for a time, and every man of truth, like Plato, or Paul, does forever.

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I like people who like Plato.

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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

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