Plato Quotes
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Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.
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You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
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It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.
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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
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Rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong … And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.
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A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
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The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
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Neither family, nor privilege, nor wealth, nor anything but Love can light that beacon which a man must steer by when he sets out to live the better life.
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If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.
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According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
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The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
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And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.
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He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.