Plato Quotes
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Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.
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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
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The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
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The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!
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Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
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We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.
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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not.
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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
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Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.
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Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
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We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.