Plato Quotes
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.
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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
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He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.
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The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.
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Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
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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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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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No man should be angry with what is true.
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The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
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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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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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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.