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Letter "P" » Plato Quotes
«Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?»
«We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
«That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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«For that is, and ever will be, the best of sayings: that the useful is the noble and the hurtful is the base»
«I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.»
«States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
«There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.»
«Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
«Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
«Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.»
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