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• Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

  Plato

  Ignorance, Roots, Causes

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• The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

  Plato

  Being Happy, Plato, Greatest Wealth

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• Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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  Fighting, Enjoy Life, Battle

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• Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

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  Song, Philosophical, Heart

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• The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

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  Fear, Self, Deception

  Plato, Harold North Fowler (1926). “Plato: with an English translation”

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• If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

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  Mistake, Failing, Made

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• To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

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  Important, Quests, Courageous

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  False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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  Truth, Attitude, Lying

  Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

  Plato

  Perfect, Justice, Understanding

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• The measure of a man is what he does with power.

  Plato

  Leadership, Plato, Power

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• We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

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  Death, Children, Men

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• If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

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  Hope For The Future, Lanterns, Ifs

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• People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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  Inspirational, Life, People

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• The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!

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  Mistake, Mind, Physicians

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• A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

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  Book, Wealth And Happiness, Wealth Of Knowledge

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• A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

  Plato

  War, Order, Tyrants

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.260, Anchor

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• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

  Plato

  Plato, War, Government

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• The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

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  Self Esteem, Lying, Pride

  Plato (1984). “Laws”

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• Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

  Plato

  Success, Dream, Long

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• The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a
  midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

  Plato

  Soul, Awakening, Privilege

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• Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
  We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
  in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

  Plato

  Practice, Skills, Excellence

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• The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Passion, Essentials

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• A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Plato, Business

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.83

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• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

  Plato

  Plato, Freedom, Men

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• He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

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  Athlete, Men, Savages

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