Plato Quotes
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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
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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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Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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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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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.
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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.
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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
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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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Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
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Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth.
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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Any peace is better than any war.
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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.