Plato Quotes
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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
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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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If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
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In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
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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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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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He who love touches walks not in darkness.
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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
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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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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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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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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
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The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?