Plato Quotes
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Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.
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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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One man cannot practice many arts with success.
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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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Rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong … And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?
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When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.
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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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There is no one who ever acts honestly in the administration of states, nor any helper who will save any one who maintains the cause of the just.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.