Plato Quotes
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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.
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To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.
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Let brother help brother.
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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.
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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.
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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.
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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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Art has no end but its own perfection.
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Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
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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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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
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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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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.