Plato Quotes
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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.
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Aristotle was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato…. He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that Plato said, 'Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.'
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When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
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And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.
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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.
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Excellent things are rare.
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All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
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Friends have all things in common.
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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.
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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
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Pleasure is the bait of sin.
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And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
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We become what we contemplate.
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.