Plato Quotes, Peace Quotes, War Quotes

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

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No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.

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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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There is truth in wine and children

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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

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For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

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The race of the guardians must be kept pure.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

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Love is a grave mental illness.

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One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

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Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

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

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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

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