Plato Quotes About Victory

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  • To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

  • To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

  • Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

    Plato (1935). “The Republic”
  • The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

    Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.499, Xist Publishing
  • For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

  • Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

  • 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 (2008). “Laws”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

  • For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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