Plato Quotes
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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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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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Love is a severe mental disorder.
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
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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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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine.
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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.
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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
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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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If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection.
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A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
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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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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
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Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.