Plato Quotes, Hands Quotes, People Quotes

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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Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

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Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

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You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

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Beauty is a natural superiority.

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It is right to give every man his due.

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If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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Adultery is the injury of nature.

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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.

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And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

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I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

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The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

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