Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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Plato Quotes
- 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.
- Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
- Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.
- Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
- Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
- Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
- Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
- Love is a serious mental disease.
- There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
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