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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Plato?
→ Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
→ The beginning is the most important part of the work.
→ All is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice.
→ Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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Pick the quote attributed to Plato.
→ The measure of a man is what he does with power.
→ The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
→ It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
→ No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner.
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Select the quotation attributed to Plato.
→ Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
→ All appears to change when we change.
→ He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
→ We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
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One of these may be attributed to Plato. Which one?
→ A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
→ Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
→ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
→ Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
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Which one of these belongs to Plato?
→ Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
→ A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
→ Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
→ A liar is always lavish of oaths.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Plato?
→ In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
→ Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
→ An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
→ It is a great thing to know our vices.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Plato.
→ One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
→ We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
→ As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
→ In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Plato. Which one?
→ I don't know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.
→ A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
→ Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
→ I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Plato?
→ The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
→ Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
→ Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
→ As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Plato.
→ The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
→ When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
→ Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
→ We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Looks like Plato is the author of one of these.
→ Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
→ To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
→ Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
→ Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Plato.
→ Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
→ A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
→ The way up and the way down are one and the same.
→ The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.
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Which one should be attributed to Plato?
→ It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresy and end as orthodoxy.
→ The most effective kind of learning is that the child should play among lovely things.
→ The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
→ The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Plato?
→ A room without books is like a body without a soul.
→ A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
→ Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
→ The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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