Plato Quotes
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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
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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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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world.
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In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
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The life which is not examined is not worth living.
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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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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
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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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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
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The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
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According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
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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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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.
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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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Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they're unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who've had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people's property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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Wine fills the heart with courage.
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In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.
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All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.
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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.