Plato Quotes
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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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In an honest man there is always something of a child.
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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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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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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
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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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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.
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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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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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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.