Plato Quotes
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Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.
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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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You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
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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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Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.
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At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
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Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.
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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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Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.
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Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.
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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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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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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
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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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Μίμησιν μὲν γὰρ δὴ καὶ ἀπεικασίαν τὰ παρὰ πάντων ἡμῶν ῥηθέντα χρεών που γενέσθαι.
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Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.
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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
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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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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.