Plato Quotes

Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

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• A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Sleep

• No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

  

  Aaron Brown
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  • Want
  • Wants

• I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Kid
  • Just
  • Rotten

• I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.

  

  Kate Brown
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  • Governor
  • Compensation

• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Funny
  • Shoes
  • Three

• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Fire

• At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • Big
  • Seeing

• It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Growth

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • God
  • Game
  • Me

• I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Think
  • You
  • Pain

• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Long
  • History
  • Grace

• In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Free
  • Day

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Process
  • Self
  • Meaning

• Quiet, the Unicorn,In contemplation stilled,With acceptance filled;Quiet, save for his horn;Alive in his horn;Horizontally,In captivity;Perpendicularly,Free.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Free
  • Acceptance
  • Unicorn

• I've been on my grandfather's boat, Calypso, twice in my life. My mother raised me in a pretty typical middle-class life.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it.

  

  Paul McEuen
  • Kid
  • Watch
  • Wasp

• Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

  

  Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Man
  • Have
  • Folly

• Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

  

  Plato
  • Justice
  • Doing
  • Have