Plato Quotes
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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.
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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
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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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He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
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Man was not made for himself alone.
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Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
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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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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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It would be better for me … that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
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Music gives a soul to the universe.