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Quote of Plato - Virtue does not come from wealth...


Biography - Plato:

Greek philosopher (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth comes from virtue.



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Ce n’est pas des richesses que vient la vertu, mais c’est de la vertu que viennent les richesses.




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Quotes for: virtue


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We must observe that in each one of us there are two ruling and leading principles, which we follow whithersoever they lead; one is the innate desire for pleasures, the other an acquired opinion which strives for the best. These two sometimes agree within us and are sometimes in strife; and sometimes one, and sometimes the other has the greater power.





I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.












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