Plato Quotes
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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.
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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
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Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.
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Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.
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By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
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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.
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In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
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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.