Plato Quotes
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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
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Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul; and we must take care, my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when he praises what he sells, like the dealers wholesale or retail who sell the food of the body; for they praise indiscriminately all their goods, without knowing what are really beneficial or hurtful.
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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
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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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Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
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Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.
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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
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Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
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Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.
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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
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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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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.