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Life Quotes by Plato

83 Life quotes by Plato

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Plato sees life as a serious fight we must keep fighting every day. He says a life that isn’t examined is empty, and that we should follow higher ideas, like truth or the good, even if they clash with what others expect. He also notes that play and good health can help us live better.

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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

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The life which is not examined is not worth living.

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As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

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Life must be lived as play.

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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

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Life should be lived as play.

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“a life without investigation is not worth living”

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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

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“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)”

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No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

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

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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from…

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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to…

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“It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a…

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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

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Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . .…

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other…

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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be…

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He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change…

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“... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether…

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“Tell us what complaint you have to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy us and the State? In…

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In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for…

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“If it is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, as it had no willing association with…

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“The State is like a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires…

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“Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire,…

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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall…

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You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up…

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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness…

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Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content…

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“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two…

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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean…

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“...each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual-- as for example someone is said to be…

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“This was her original state; and then, as I was saying, and as the lovers of knowledge are well aware, philosophy, seeing…

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Justice means minding ones own business and not meddling with other mens concerns.

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What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

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