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Dalla democrazia nasce per natura il dispotismo, e dalla libertà estrema la forma più grave di tirannia e di schiavitù.Platone · Citazioni di Platone
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Wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold--fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom.Platone · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 482
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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.Platone · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 487
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Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.Platone · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 65
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Peraltro, o Socrate, bisogna fare uso della retorica come di tutti gli altri strumenti di lotta. Infatti, anche di tutti gli altri strumenti di lotta non bisogna servirsi in modo indiscriminato e contro tutti. (456 c)Platone · Gorgia / Citazioni
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