Plato Quotes
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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
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All knowledge is but remembrance.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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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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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.
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There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers.
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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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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
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No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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God ever geometrizes.
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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.
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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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'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 wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?