Plato Quotes
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Any peace is better than any war.
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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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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
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Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
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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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The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.
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It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.
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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
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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.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.
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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
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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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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.