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Very Quotes by Plato
- Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible…
- They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
- Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all…
- My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are…
- ... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and…
- I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation,…
- The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service…
- And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something…
- Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
- Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
- They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living…
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