Plato Quotes

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  If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

  Plato

  Government, Political, Politics

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• Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

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  Reality, Mind

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• A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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  Wise, Plato, Men

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• No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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  Plato, Hero, Speak

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• Be kind. Every person you meet
  is fighting a difficult battle.

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  Fighting, Battle, Be Kind

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• The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

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  Important, Answers, Right Answers

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• The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

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  Practice, Plant

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• Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

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  Children, Fire, Light

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• The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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  Plato, Work, Acceptance

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• Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

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  Children, Different, Way

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• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

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• The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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  Being Happy, Plato, Greatest Wealth

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• The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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  Leadership, Plato, Power

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• Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

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  Advice, Progress, Matter

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• We become what we contemplate.

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  Contemplating

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• Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

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  Wisdom, Thinking, Talking

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

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  Optimism, Age, Pressure

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.211, Xist Publishing

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• The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

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  Reality, Political, Words Of Wisdom

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

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  Grateful, Great Things, Feels

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• The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

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  Inspirational, Passion, Essentials

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• Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

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  Success, Dream, Long

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• Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

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  Desire, Poverty, Wealth

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• To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

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  Important, Quests, Courageous

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• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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  Im Sorry, Apology, Men

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, Xist Publishing

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• Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

  Plato

  Fighting, Enjoy Life, Battle

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