All Plato Quotes
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Plato
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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