For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
More Plato Quotes
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln
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There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
