Plato Quotes
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Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.
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Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.
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If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
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If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.
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May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.
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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.
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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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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
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He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
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Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.
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Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
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The proud man is forsaken of God.
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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.