Plato Quotes
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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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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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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
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I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
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No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.
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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.
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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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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Ignorance: the root of all evil.
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
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He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.
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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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Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
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Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.