Plato Quotes
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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
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Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
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Pleasure is the bait of sin.
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'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
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τοῖς μὲν οὖν τότε, ἅτε οὐκ οὖσι σοφοῖς ὥσπερ ὑμεῖς οἱ νέοι, ἀπέχρη δρυὸς καὶ πέτρας ἀκούειν ὑπ᾽ εὐηθείας, εἰ μόνον ἀληθῆ λέγοιεν: σοὶ δ᾽ ἴσως διαφέρει τίς ὁ λέγων καὶ ποδαπός.
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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
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The god is the beautiful.
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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...the Gods too love a joke.
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τὸν μὲν οὖν ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς εὑρεῖν τε ἔργον καὶ εὑρόντα εἰς πάντας ἀδύνατον λέγειν
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Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.
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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
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Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
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Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.
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All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.
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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.