Plato Quotes
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Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.
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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
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For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.
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The wisest have the most authority.
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A work well begun is half-ended.
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Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
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A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.
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That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.
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When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
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Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
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From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
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The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.