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  • When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Evil Quotes , Desire Quotes
  • A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Men Quotes , Good Man Quotes
  • The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Journey Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Character Quotes