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• ...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Education, Philosophy

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

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• We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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  Philosophical, Process, Recollection

  Plato, Benjamin Jowett (2009). “Five Great Dialogues of Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.70, Coyote Canyon Press

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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, as if they knew well.

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  Death, Blessing, Men

  Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

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• The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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  Body, Pleasure, Charm

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.210, Xist Publishing

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• We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

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  Exercise, Mind, Body

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• Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

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  Equality, Justice, Suffering

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• To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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  Love, Beautiful, Education

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• Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

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  Desire, Virtue

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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  Lying, Philosophical, Liberty

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• Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

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  Soul, Yoke, Madness

  Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.1540, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Your dog is your only philosopher.

  Plato

  Dog, Philosopher

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• The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

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  Men, Littles

  Plato (2009). “Selected Dialogues of Plato: The Benjamin Jowett Translation”, p.290, Modern Library

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• [M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

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  Art, Giving, Persuasion

  Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.1535, e-artnow

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• The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

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  Plato, Men, Evil

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• When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.228

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• Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

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  Madness, Sober, Humans

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• The proud man is forsaken of God.

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  Pride, Men, Proud

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• Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

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  Wings, Giving, Imagination

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• My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

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  Hate, People, Hatred

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• Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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  Philosophical, Men, May

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.194, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

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  Heart, Degrees, Doe

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• A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

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  Writing, Men, Swim

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• A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

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  Hands, Office, Democracy

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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 long observation of the nature of evil in others.

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  Should Have, Long, Evil

  Plato, General Press (2016). “The Republic”, p.299, GENERAL PRESS

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• The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

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  Leadership, Taken, New Beginnings

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.260, Xist Publishing

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