Plato Quotes
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.
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Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
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In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.
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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
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It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
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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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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.
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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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Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?