Quote #21
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
More from Plato
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- When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
- If we mean our future guardians to regard the habit of quarrelling among themselves as of all things the basest, should any word be said to…
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- God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
- False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- The gods are not magicians who transform themselves; neither do they deceive mankind in any way.