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Quotes by Plato
“There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.”
Plato
“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”
Plato
“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”
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“Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.”
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“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
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“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”
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“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”
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“To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.”
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“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.”
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“Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.”
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“All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else”
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“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”
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“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”
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“Philosophy is the highest music.”
Plato
“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”
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“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”
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“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
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“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
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“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
Plato
“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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“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?”
Plato
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”
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“Democracy passes into despotism.”
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“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”
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“Life must be lived as play.”
Plato
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”
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“No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.”
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“Courage is a kind of salvation.”
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“Necessity... the mother of invention.”
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“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
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