Plato Quotes
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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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ἐπ᾽ εὐτυχίᾳ τῇ μεγίστῃ παρὰ θεῶν ἡ τοιαύτη μανία sc. ὁ ἔρως δίδοται
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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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τὸν μὲν οὖν ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς εὑρεῖν τε ἔργον καὶ εὑρόντα εἰς πάντας ἀδύνατον λέγειν
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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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Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.
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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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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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'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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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.
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Our need will be the real creator.
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You cannot go into the same water twice.
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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 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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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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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 vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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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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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.