Plato Quotes
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
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Man was not made for himself alone.
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An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
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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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In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.
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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
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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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Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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Necessity is literally the mother of invention.