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«Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.»
«Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.»
«Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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abundant, apply, crop, cropped, cultivation, land, prosperous, The Land, the next
«Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another»
«For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.»
«When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
«Courage is a kind of salvation.»
«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.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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administer, administering, administers, city, eloquent, handsomer, handsomest, ill, physician, politics, presume, presumed, presumes, presume to, presuming, state, votes, vote in
«The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life»
«Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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behavior, desire, emotion, flowed, flows, flow out, Human behavior, in the main, knowledge, main, sources, three
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