Plato Quotes
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The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.
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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.
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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
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And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.
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When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.
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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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No man should be angry with what is true.
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.