Plato Quotes
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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
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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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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
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The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals.
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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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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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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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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
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The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
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The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.
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No man should be angry with what is true.
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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different 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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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 fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
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All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.