Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Quote by Plato
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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Plato Quotes
- 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.
- When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Knowledge is true opinion.
- Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
- Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
- Courage is a kind of salvation.
- There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
- The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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- I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.
- That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.
- I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
- A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
- Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
- I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
- Art is science made clear.