Plato

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— Plato

Your dog is your only philosopher.

— Plato

“Soma sèma estin.”

— Plato

The beginning is half of the whole.

— Plato

Philosophy begins in wonder.

— Plato

“Today Learner is Tomorrow Leader”

— Plato

Courage is a kind of salvation.

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Beauty is a natural superiority.

— Plato

“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.”

— Plato

“Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.”

— Plato

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

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

— Plato

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

— Plato

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

— Plato

“I prefer nothing, unless it is true.”

— Plato

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

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Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

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“Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who are of a certain nature; he who…

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“the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue,”

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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

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Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape,…

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It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened…

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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes,…

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“those who have made their own money don’t just care about it because {5} it’s useful, as other people do, but because…

— Plato

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider…

— Plato

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“I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners…

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“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of…

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“the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a…

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“It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing…

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“I certainly have many enemies, and this is what will be my destruction if I am destroyed; of that I am certain;…

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They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and…

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“For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says,…

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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often…

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“My meaning is, that any state of action or passion implies previous action or passion. It does not become because it is…

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“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only…

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Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and…

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“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm…

— Plato