"Is it not also true that no..." - Quote by Plato
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
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“I prefer nothing, unless it is true.”
“The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.”
“For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.”
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“Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”
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“The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.”
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“The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.”
“Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.”