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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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
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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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Every man is a poet when he is in love.
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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
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The beginning is half of the whole.
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The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.
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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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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
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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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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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Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
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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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Necessity... the mother of invention.
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
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You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.
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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.