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Plato

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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.


— Plato


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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.


— Plato


#apply #both #cannot #crop #cultivation

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.


— Plato


#bequeath #children #parents #reverence #riches

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.


— Plato


#concerns #justice #means #meddling #men

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?


— Plato


#awake #dream #how #moment #our

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.


— Plato


#being #cleverness #entire #evil #extreme

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.


— Plato


#after #death #either #evil #good

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.


— Plato


#burden #calm #disposition #equally #feel

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.


— Plato


#attention #greatest #health #hindrance #life

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.


— Plato


#ignorant #knowledge #learning #little #most






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Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Plato's mother was Perictione whose family boasted of a relationship with the famous Athenian lawmaker and lyric poet Solon. Then at twenty-eight Hermodorus says [Plato] went to Euclides in Megara.

Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. In the words of A.

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