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“He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.”

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Plato (428 BC - 348 BC) was a prominent Greek philosopher, one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy. He founded the Academy, which was the first institution of higher education in the Western world. Plato's philosophy, centered around the theory of Forms, emphasized the importance of reason and morality. more

“Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.”

Desire Example Sweet Cold Opposites Hot Bitter Dry Void Blunt

Book:The Complete Plato

Source: The Complete Plato

“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.”

Seems Desire Type Terrible Moderates

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“Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.”

Men Country Whole Virtue Wonderful Mankind He Man Europe Excellence Blow Our Country Islands Empires Regions Continents Egypt Columns Libya Atlantis

Book:Gorgias and Timaeus

Source: Gorgias and Timaeus

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