Plato Quotes
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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
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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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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth.
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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
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Life must be lived as play.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.
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All knowledge is but remembrance.
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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.
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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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Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.
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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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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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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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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
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He who love touches walks not in darkness.
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God ever geometrizes.
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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 the pursuit of the whole.
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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play.