Plato Quotes
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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.
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For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.
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Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
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Neither family, nor privilege, nor wealth, nor anything but Love can light that beacon which a man must steer by when he sets out to live the better life.
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.
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Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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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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My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.
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Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.
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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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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
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That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.
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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.