Plato Quotes
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Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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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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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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In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
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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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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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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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... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.
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He who love touches walks not in darkness.
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.
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A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.
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As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.
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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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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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 what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine.
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.