Plato Quotes
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The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
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For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.
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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
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What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?
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That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
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We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year.
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Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
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I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.
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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
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Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
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People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.