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Plato
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
--Plato
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
--Plato
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
--Plato
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
--Plato
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
--Plato
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
--Plato
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
--Plato
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
--Plato
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
--Plato
No human thing is of serious importance.
--Plato
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
--Plato