Plato Quotes
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The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
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No one ever dies an atheist.
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
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All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
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The beginning is half of the whole.
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Every man is a poet when he is in love.
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The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.
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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
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The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
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Necessity... the mother of invention.
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We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.
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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.
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Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.
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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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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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Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.