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Death Quotes by Plato

45 Death quotes by Plato

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Plato suggests that many people treat death as a terrible unknown, but he hints it could be a great blessing for those who understand it. He says the bravest philosophers train themselves to die, so they fear death less than anyone else. The quotes also warn that fearing death can be a false show of wisdom, while a closed mind is a real danger.

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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

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“Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?”

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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

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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

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“[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.”

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we…

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Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our…

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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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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if…

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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

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“To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to…

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“For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing the unknown;…

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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the…

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And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by…

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“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows…

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“Cookery simulates the disguise of medicine, and pretends to know what food is the best for the body; and if the physician…

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And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party,…

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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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But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs…

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“if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great…

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“Not much time will be gained, O Athenians, in return for the evil name which you will get from the detractors of…

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“Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good;…

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“if you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange...they all consider death…

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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

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This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.

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Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse,…

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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one…

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No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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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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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...…

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“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that…

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“what if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...the…

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