Plato Quotes
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
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Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.
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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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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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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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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
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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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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
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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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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
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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.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.
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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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In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.