Plato Quotes
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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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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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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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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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The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.
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Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.
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A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.
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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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You should not honor men more than truth.
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As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.
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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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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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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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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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... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.
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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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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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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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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.