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Plato

'Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.'

Time period: 500BC - 0

Plato

'At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.'

Time period: 500BC - 0
Categories: Love

Plato

'When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.'

Time period: 500BC - 0
Categories: Character

Plato

'Let us describe the education of our men. . . . What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.'

Time period: 500BC - 0
Categories: Learning

Plato

'Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.'

Time period: 500BC - 0
Categories: Honesty

Plato

'The beginning is the most important part of the work.'

Time period: 500BC - 0
Categories: Planning

Plato

'No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.'

Time period: 500BC - 0
Categories: Learning

Plato

'They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.'

Time period: 500BC - 0
Categories: Truth

Plato

'Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.'

Time period: 500BC - 0
Categories: Success

Plato

'At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.'

Time period: 500BC - 0
Categories: Love

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