Plato Quotes
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
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Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.
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It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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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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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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Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.
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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 ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
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He who love touches walks not in darkness.
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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
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Man was not made for himself alone.
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The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.
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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.
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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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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?