Plato Quotes
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For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.
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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.
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
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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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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
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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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Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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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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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors.
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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
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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 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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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
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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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Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
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We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year.
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For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.