Plato Quotes
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
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Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
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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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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.
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The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.
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All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
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An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.
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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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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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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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εὖ ἂν ἔχοι ... εἰ τοιοῦτον εἴη ἡ σοφία ὥστ᾽ ἐκ τοῦ πληρεστέρου εἰς τὸ κενώτερον ῥεῖν ἡμῶν...
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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
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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 qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.