There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Plato Quotes
- Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
- Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
- Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
- They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
- The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
- The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
- States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
- Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
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