Plato Quotes
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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.
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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
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A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.
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The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.
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The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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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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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
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In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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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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What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.
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A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.