Plato Quotes
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Beauty is a natural superiority.
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The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
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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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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
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Socrates: The shoemaker, for example, uses a square tool, and a circular tool, and other tools for cutting?
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Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
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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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The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
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To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
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How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."
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Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
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Ignorance: the root of all evil.
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Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
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A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
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That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.
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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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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 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.