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Inspirational Quotes by Plato

99 Inspirational quotes by Plato

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Plato reminds us that asking the right question can matter more than finding the perfect answer. He sees harmony as a virtue and discord as a problem to avoid. He also says true learning comes from a deep, restless love for truth and from conquering one’s own self.

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Your dog is your only philosopher.

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Beauty is a natural superiority.

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Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

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No one ever dies an atheist…

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God ever geometrizes.

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A work well begun is half-ended.

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Geometry existed before creation.

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The God of Love lives in a state of need.

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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

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Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

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When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

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...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy…

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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his…

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Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something

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Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

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“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and…

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What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

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Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation…

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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel,…

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Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course,…

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The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied…

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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that…

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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil…

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For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out…

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God is truth and light his shadow.

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Any peace is better than any war

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Ignorance: the root of all evil.

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Through obedience learn to command.

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Art has no end but its own perfection.

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Courage is knowing what to fear.

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Man was not made for himself alone

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God forever geometrizes.

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At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

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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.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at…

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to…

“He was a wise man who invented God.”

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm…

“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable…

Geometry existed before creation.

When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men…