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- Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
- Zeuxis (~400 BC), from Pliny the Elder, Natural History
- Friends have all things in common.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedrus
- 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
- When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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