Plato Quotes

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

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• Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

  

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• The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills.

  

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• He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.

  

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• I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

  

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• To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

  

  Plato
  • Nature
  • Victory
  • Defeat