There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Plato Quotes
- He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
- He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
- The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
- It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
- Courage is a kind of salvation.
- I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
- Knowledge is true opinion.
- Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
- Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Best Quotes
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- If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
- Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
- Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- I spend a lot of time reading.
- We pardon to the extent that we love.
- Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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