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- Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Not even the gods fight against necessity.
- Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC), from Plato, Dialogues, Protagoras
- Friends have all things in common.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedrus
- The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
- No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Apology
- The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
- Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo
- The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo
- False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo
- 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.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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