Greek Quotes
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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
-- Plato"Pleasure is the bait of sin."
-- Plato"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
-- Plato"No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."
-- Plato"You should not honor men more than truth."
-- Plato"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age."
-- Plato"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood."
-- Plato"It is right to give every man his due."
-- Plato"Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete."
-- Plato"In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state."
-- Plato"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."
-- Plato"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."
-- Plato"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."
-- Plato"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."
-- Plato"Those who tell the stories rule society."
-- Plato"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
-- Plato"There is truth in wine and children."
-- Plato"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
-- Plato"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
-- Plato"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
-- Plato