Plato Quotes

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• Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
• He was a wise man who invented beer.
• There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
• The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of…
• No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
• A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
• Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
• The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all…
• Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war…
• In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
• The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
• Friends should have all things in common.
• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
• Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
• Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
• When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
• Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
• When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
• Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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