Plato Quotes
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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.
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The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.
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The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
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As the government is, such will be the man.
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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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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.
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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection.
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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.
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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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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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Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.
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When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.
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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
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So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.
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Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
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For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.
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You should not honor men more than truth.