Plato Quotes
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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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The race of the guardians must be kept pure.
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Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.
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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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Geometry existed before creation.
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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.
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If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.
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The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.
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He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.
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The orators - and the despots - have the least power in their cities … since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.
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Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
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Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
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Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.
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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'