Plato Quotes
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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul.
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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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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
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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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Life should be lived as play.
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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.
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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.
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Music gives a soul to the universe.
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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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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
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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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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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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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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.
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An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it.
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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.