Plato Quotes
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.
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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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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
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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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Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.
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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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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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Music gives a soul to the universe.
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The prisoner grows to love his chains.
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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.
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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.