Plato Quotes
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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
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Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
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Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
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Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.
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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.
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So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.
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We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.
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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.
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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
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Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.
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If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.
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Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.
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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.
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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.