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- There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?
- Phocion (402 BC - 318 BC), from Plutarch, Apothegms
- Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Physics
- To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
- To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
- A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
- The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
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