Plato Quotes
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You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.
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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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To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.
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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
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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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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
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Let brother help brother.
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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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Wine fills the heart with courage.
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A house that has a library in it has a 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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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul.
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He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
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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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Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
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And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.
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Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.
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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.