Plato Quotes
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If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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God ever geometrizes.
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In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
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Is virtue something that can be taught?
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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
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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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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
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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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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
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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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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
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Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.
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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.