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plato lasts all-things
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? Plato
plato democracy equal
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
plato men self
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.
plato sick physicians
But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?
plato believe law
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
plato character mean
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
plato body physicians
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
plato enemy use
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
plato government opposites
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
republican democrat katrina
We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me. Donna Brazile
republic tenure
Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated. Wendell Phillips
republican economy knows
Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy. Lyndon B. Johnson
republican democrat humans
I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human. Chely Wright
doe add novel
The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience. Elizabeth Bowen
doe mystery theater
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are. Alejandro Jodorowsky
doe knows
He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows. Alfred Korzybski
doe opinion obstinate
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them. Alexander Pope
doe make-sense without-god
The universe does not make sense without God. E. Stanley Jones
doe way causes
If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work. Doug Liman
doe
I don't follow what everybody else does. Donald Byrd
doe fiction comedy
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets. Dylan Moran
doe conservative conserving
To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving. Douglas Wilson