Plato Quotes
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When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
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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 race of the guardians must be kept pure.
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Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.
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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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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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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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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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A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.
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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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Geometry existed before creation.
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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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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection.
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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
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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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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
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I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.
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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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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.