Plato Quotes
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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
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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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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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God ever geometrizes.
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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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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
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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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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
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Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
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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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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.