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Plato quotes about great

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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. Plato
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. Plato
My dear Homer, if you are really only once removed from the truth, with reference to virtue, instead of being twice removed and the manufacturer of a phantom, according to our definition of an imitator, and if you need to be able to distinguish between the pursuits which make men better or worse, in private and in public, tell us what city owes a better constitution to you, as Lacedaemon owes hers to Lycurgus, and as many cities, great and small, owe theirs to many other legislators? What... Plato
Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig? Plato
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. Plato
Even now I'm well aware that if I allowed myself to listen to him I couldn't resist but would have the same experience again. He makes me admit that, in spite of my great defects, I neglect myself and instead get involved in Athenian politics. So I force myself to block my ears and go away, like someone escaping from the Sirens, to prevent myself sitting there beside him till I grow old. Plato
Plato quote: "Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. Plato
Plato quote: "Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves..."
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. Plato
Plato quote: "Better a little which is well done, than a great deal..."
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. Plato
Plato quote: "Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. Plato

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