Plato Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Class Quotes

... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

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Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

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Let brother help brother.

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

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We become what we contemplate.

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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

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Those who tell the stories rule society.

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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

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