Plato Quotes
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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
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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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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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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
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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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Socrates: The shoemaker, for example, uses a square tool, and a circular tool, and other tools for cutting?
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
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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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Is virtue something that can be taught?
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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Any peace is better than any war.
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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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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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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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.