Plato Quotes
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Love: a grave mental disease.
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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.
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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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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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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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It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.
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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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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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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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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Music gives a soul to the universe.
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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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The prisoner grows to love his chains.
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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.
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Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.
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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
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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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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.