Plato Quotes
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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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Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
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Do thine own work, and know thyself.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.
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I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.
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The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.
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The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.
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Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
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What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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Man was not made for himself alone.
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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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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
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Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.