Plato

=Plato=

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1. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

2. Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

3. Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

4. Only the dead have seen the end of war.

5. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

6. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

7. You cannot conceive the many without the one.

8. The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.

9. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

10. Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

11. Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

12. Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

13. There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

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