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«No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
compulsion, freeborn, mix, pursued, rooted, slavery, studies, trace
«Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.»
«What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Appearance
| Keywords:
colors, prose, recited, recites, reciting, stripped, tales
«Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
discontent, indolence, luxury, meanness, parent, viciousness
«Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
«He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
burden, calm, disposition, equally, hardly, of age, opposite, pressure, pressured, Too Much Pressure
«And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Death and dying,
Suffering,
Truth
| Keywords:
abide, abide by, award, condemned, condemned to death, depart, penalty, villainy
«Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.»
«The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine»
«Abstinence is the surety of temperance»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Abstinence
| Keywords:
abstinence, sureties, surety, temperance
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