Plato Quotes
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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul.
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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.
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A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.
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To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.
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God forever geometrizes.
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The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.
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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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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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Love: a grave mental disease.
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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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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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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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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.
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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.
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The prisoner grows to love his chains.
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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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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.