Plato Quotes
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Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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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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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.
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The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.
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... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
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The prisoner grows to love his chains.
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The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.
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I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.
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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.
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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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It would be better for me … that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
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Love: a grave mental disease.
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It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.
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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.