Plato Quotes
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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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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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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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I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.
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Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
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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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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
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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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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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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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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
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The life which is not examined is not worth living.
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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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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
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He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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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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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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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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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.