Plato Quotes
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And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
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Pleasure is the bait of sin.
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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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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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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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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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τὸν μὲν οὖν ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς εὑρεῖν τε ἔργον καὶ εὑρόντα εἰς πάντας ἀδύνατον λέγειν
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...the Gods too love a joke.
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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.
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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.
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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
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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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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.
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Our need will be the real creator.
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Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
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As you hope to prove your own great value to the state, and having proved it, to attain at once to absolute power, so do I indulge a hope that I shall be the supreme power over you, if I am able to prove my own great value to you.
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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
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You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.