Plato Quotes
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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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Love: a grave mental disease.
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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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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 laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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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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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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The prisoner grows to love his chains.
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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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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.
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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
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For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.
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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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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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Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.