Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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Plato Quotes
- Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
- Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
- Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
- All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
- Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
- Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
- Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
- One man cannot practice many arts with success.
- No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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