Plato Quotes
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Excellent things are rare.
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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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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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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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Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.
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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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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
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Pleasure is the bait of sin.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Gods too love a joke.
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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
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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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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.