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
- Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
- Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
- Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
- One man cannot practice many arts with success.
- If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
- Love is a serious mental disease.
- Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
- Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
- 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.
- 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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