Plato Quotes
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.
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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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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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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
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What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.
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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.
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Man is a biped without feathers.
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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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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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
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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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Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.
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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 is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?
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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.
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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
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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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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
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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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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.