Plato
Plato
Platowas a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries, Plato's entire œuvre is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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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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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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As the government is, such will be the man.
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Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
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If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.
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Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life....
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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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Every man is a poet when he is in love.
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No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.