Plato Quotes
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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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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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
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The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
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The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.
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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.
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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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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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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.