Plato Quotes
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The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
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Any peace is better than any war.
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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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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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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
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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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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
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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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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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Man was not made for himself alone.
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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.