Plato Quotes
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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
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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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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play.
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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
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You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.
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Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
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The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.
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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.