Plato

God is a geometrician.

— Plato

You must base the Wisdom on Love.

— Plato

Dont look back, the bridge is gone.

— Plato

Love is a grave mental illness.

— Plato

No one ever dies an atheist…

— Plato

God ever geometrizes.

— Plato

A work well begun is half-ended.

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Your silence gives consent.

— Plato

“let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.”

— Plato

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

— Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

— Plato

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

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He was a wise man who invented beer.

— Plato

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

— Plato

“Good actions can strengthen ourselves and inspire good actions to others.”

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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it…

— Plato

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

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What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful…

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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

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“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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

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Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest,…

— Plato

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

— Plato

If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be…

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“this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining…

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“According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects…

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“In which, if any, of these constitutions do we find the art of ruling being practiced in the actual government of men?…

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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and…

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“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender…

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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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Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several…

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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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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of…

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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first…

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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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“See human beings as though they were in an underground cave-like dwelling with its entrance, a long one, open to the light…

— Plato