Plato Quotes
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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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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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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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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.
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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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Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
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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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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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To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
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The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
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Through obedience learn to command.
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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.
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The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.
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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
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The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.
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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
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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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You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.
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Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.
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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.