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A well begun is half ended. -- Plato | Action Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Action at Amazon.com He who is of a 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. -- Plato | Age and Aging Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Age and Aging at Amazon.com Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many. -- Plato | Age and Aging Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Age and Aging at Amazon.com Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. -- Plato | Ancestry Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Ancestry at Amazon.com He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. -- Plato | Anger Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Anger at Amazon.com It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. -- Plato | Astronomy Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Astronomy at Amazon.com There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power. -- Plato | Atheism Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Atheism at Amazon.com Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity. -- Plato | Beauty Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Beauty at Amazon.com When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. -- Plato | Character Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Character at Amazon.com 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. -- Plato | Cities and City Life Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Cities and City Life at Amazon.com I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. -- Plato | Conflict Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Conflict at Amazon.com The first and the best victory is to conquer self. -- Plato | Control Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Control at Amazon.com He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. -- Plato | Crime and Criminals Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Crime and Criminals at Amazon.com Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. -- Plato | Death and Dying Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Death and Dying at Amazon.com Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? -- Plato | Death and Dying Send to friend | View Books by Plato at Amazon.com | Books about Death and Dying at Amazon.com Quote: 1-15 of 85 Pages: 1 of 6 next  View all quotes