Plato Quotes
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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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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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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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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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Our need will be the real creator.
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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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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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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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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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τὸν μὲν οὖν ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς εὑρεῖν τε ἔργον καὶ εὑρόντα εἰς πάντας ἀδύνατον λέγειν
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It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.
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...the Gods too love a joke.
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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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Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
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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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The soul should concentrate itself by itself.
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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
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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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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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I would fain grow old learning many things.