Plato Quotes
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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Let brother help brother.
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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
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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 true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
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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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You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
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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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At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
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Democracy passes into despotism.
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...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.
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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.
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The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.
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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
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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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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.