Plato Quotes
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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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 good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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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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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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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
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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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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.
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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.
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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.
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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
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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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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.