Plato Quotes
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Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
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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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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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οὐκ εἰσὶν οἱ παμπλούσιοι ἀγαθοί
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Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.
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Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
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Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
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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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As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.
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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
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You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
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Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.
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Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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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?