Plato Quotes
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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
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Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors.
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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.
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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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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
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Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
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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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God is a geometrician.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
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What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?
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Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
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Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?
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Is virtue something that can be taught?
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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Any peace is better than any war.
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For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?
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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.