Plato Quotes
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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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Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
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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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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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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.
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And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?
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As the government is, such will be the man.
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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
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For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.
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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
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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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Love is a severe mental disorder.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.