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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 cacophony our-lives
A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. Desmond Tutu
doe illusion
What does not contain love must contain an illusion. Deepak Chopra
doe sense-of-humor ive-learned
I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does! Debbie Gibson
doe sometimes remarkable
We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me. Andie MacDowell
doe deliverance wave
But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed. Amy Carmichael
doe charity humans
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. Simone Weil