Plato Quotes
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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
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Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.
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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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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.
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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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By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection.
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I prefer nothing, unless it is true.
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Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
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The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
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In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
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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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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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Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
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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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.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.
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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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Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.
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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.
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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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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.