Plato Quotes
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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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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
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Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.
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For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
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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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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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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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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
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The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
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Those who tell the stories rule society.
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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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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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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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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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Is virtue something that can be taught?
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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
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To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.
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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.