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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If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.
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Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
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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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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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Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.
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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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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
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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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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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To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.
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No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul.
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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
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Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.
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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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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.
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The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.
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And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?
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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.