Plato Quotes
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
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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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Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.
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What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
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The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.
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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.
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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
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Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
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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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From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine.
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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.
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Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.
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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.
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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.