Plato Quotes
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Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth.
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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
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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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But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.
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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
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For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.
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God ever geometrizes.
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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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'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'
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The life which is not examined is not worth living.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
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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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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
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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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It is right to give every man his due.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.