Plato Quotes
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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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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Any peace is better than any war.
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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
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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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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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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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Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
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The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
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Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
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Man was not made for himself alone.
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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.
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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
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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.