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• As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

  Plato

  Lying, Stones, Wells

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.415

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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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• If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

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  Men, Good Man, Answers

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• Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

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  Beautiful, Wise, Ignorance

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• We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

  Plato

  Years, Games, Play

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• What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

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  Country, Philosophical, Honored

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• Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Wise, Self

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• Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

  Plato

  Love, Plato, Greatness

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• Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

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  Harmony, Results, Rhythm

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• Geometry existed before creation.

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  Math, Creation, Geometry

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• To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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  Philosophical, Suffering, Haste

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.547

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• By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

  Plato

  Mean, Men, Names

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• It is right to give every man his due.

  Plato

  Men, Giving, Dues

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

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  Philosophical, Men, Evil

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

  Plato

  Justice, Stronger, Principles

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.221, Xist Publishing

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• I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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  Philosophical, Giving, Silence

  Plato, Aeterna Press (2015). “Cratylus”, p.133, Aeterna Press

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• Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

  Plato

  Men, Praise, Virtue

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

  Plato

  Thinking, Deception, Noble

  Plato (2015). “Theaetetus: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.134, 谷月社

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• The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

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  Reality, Words Of Wisdom, Function

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• It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

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  Sea, Use, Select

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• There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

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  Children, Teaching, Exercise

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• When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

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  Men, Musician, Virtue

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.87

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• We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

  Plato

  Sacrifice, Dancing, Singing

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.161, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let brother help brother.

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  Brother, Fellowship, Helping

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.273, Aegitas

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• Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and
  on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from
  the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.

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  Blessed, New Beginnings, Heaven

  Plato (1883). “Plato's Best Thoughts”

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