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- Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Laws
- The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
- George Santiano
- Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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