Plato Quotes
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You can't do good if you don't feel good.
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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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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.
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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
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No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers.
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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
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Friends should have all things in common.
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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?
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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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Life should be lived as play.
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Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.