Plato Quotes
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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
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Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.
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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?
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If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.
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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
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You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.
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Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.
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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.
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That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.
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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.
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... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.
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I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.
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Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay.
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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
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Through obedience learn to command.
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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
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For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.
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I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.
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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.