Plato Quotes
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.
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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.
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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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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.
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Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.
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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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Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.
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The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference between men and women is one of physical function- one begets, the other bears children. Apart from that, they both can and should perform the same functions - though men on a whole, perform them better and should receive the same education to enable them to do so; for in this way society will get the best value from both.
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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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There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
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If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
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States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.
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When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
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Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
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My love, Alcibiades, which I hardly like to confess, would long ago have passed away, as I flatter myself, if I saw you loving your good things, or thinking that you ought to pass life in the enjoyment of them.
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And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.